if you just want to order the data on some columns, you can use

sort

or

orderBy

to ensure your data has a specific ordered layout. but this wont have the effect of bucketing on the downstream operations that read that data (faster joins/aggregations). delta supports min/max based file skipping, which can speed up filters for sorted or co-located data. Zorder uses clustering algorithms to produce files that benefit more from this file skipping

whats the reason you want to sort it?