- Home
- Data Version Control Tools
- Project Nessie
On the recordRead 8 Oct 202622 facts
Project Nessie
On the record
- Access control
- Nessie supports configurable authorization rules for operations such as listing references, reading entity values, and creating branches.projectnessie.org · read 8 Oct 2026
- Authentication
- Nessie catalog configuration documents NONE, BEARER, OAUTH2, and AWS authentication types.projectnessie.org · read 8 Oct 2026
- Authorization scope
- Nessie authorization controls metadata access; the documentation says a separate system is expected to control access to the data itself.projectnessie.org · read 8 Oct 2026
- Command-line tools
- The Nessie CLI is a command-line interface and REPL.projectnessie.org · read 8 Oct 2026
- Community support
- The project directs users to its Google Group and Zulip chat for contact and community discussion.projectnessie.org · read 8 Oct 2026
- Consistent changes
- Nessie lets users prepare isolated data changes and apply them atomically so users do not see incomplete changes.projectnessie.org · read 8 Oct 2026
- Container architectures
- The downloads page lists Docker images for amd64, arm64, ppc64le, and s390x.projectnessie.org · read 8 Oct 2026
- Data cleanup
- The Nessie GC tool can mark and sweep data files according to flexible expiration policies.projectnessie.org · read 8 Oct 2026
- Data handling
- Nessie versions lists of files associated with datasets and does not make copies of the underlying data.projectnessie.org · read 8 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Nessie can run as a Docker image or on Kubernetes.projectnessie.org · read 8 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The project documents using Nessie with Spark, Flink, Hive, and Trino through Iceberg.projectnessie.org · read 8 Oct 2026
- License and governance
- Nessie is Apache-licensed and developed in an open-source, consensus-driven GitHub community.projectnessie.org · read 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Nessie is a transactional catalog for data lakes that uses Git-like semantics to version data.projectnessie.org · read 8 Oct 2026
- Repository migration
- The Nessie Server Admin Tool supports exporting and importing a Nessie repository.projectnessie.org · read 8 Oct 2026
- Scale
- The project says Nessie supports millions of tables and thousands of commits per second.projectnessie.org · read 8 Oct 2026
- Security
- Nessie supports authentication using OpenID Connect bearer tokens, and its documentation describes authorization controls.projectnessie.org · read 8 Oct 2026
- Storage
- The service has a pluggable storage backend, with packaged support for DynamoDB, Google BigTable, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, and RocksDB local storage.projectnessie.org · read 8 Oct 2026
- Support and community
- The project directs users to its Google Group and Zulip chat for contact and community support.projectnessie.org · read 8 Oct 2026
