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What is Project Nessie, and How to Deploy It in an Enterprise Data Stack?

Last updated on
April 10, 2025
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What is Project Nessie?

Project Nessie is a transactional catalog system that brings Git-like version control capabilities to data lakes, enabling teams to manage and track changes to data and table metadata across multiple systems. It provides atomic cross-table transactions and version control features like branching, tagging, and committing changes, which solves critical data consistency challenges. For example, when a financial services company needs to update thousands of customer records across multiple tables while simultaneously running complex risk analysis, Project Nessie ensures that analysts always work with consistent data snapshots and can easily roll back changes if needed, preventing costly data inconsistencies that could impact financial reporting accuracy.

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Why is Project Nessie better on Shakudo?

Project Nessie's Git-like version control for data lakes integrates seamlessly with Shakudo's operating system, providing automated infrastructure setup and instant connectivity with your existing data tools. The native integration eliminates complex configuration requirements while maintaining enterprise-grade security within your infrastructure.

Shakudo's unified platform approach means Nessie's transactional catalog capabilities can be immediately leveraged across all your AI and analytics workflows, with built-in governance and access controls.

While traditional Nessie deployments require significant DevOps overhead to maintain scalability and tool integration, Shakudo's infrastructure automation handles these concerns automatically, letting data teams focus on leveraging Nessie's powerful versioning capabilities rather than managing infrastructure.

Why is Project Nessie better on Shakudo?

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