Delta Lake vs Project Nessie
Delta Lake
delta.ioProject Nessie
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| Figure | Delta Lake | Project Nessie |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Data Version Control Tools | 8.5 (#9) | 7.2 (#33) |
| Community support | The project points users to Slack, GitHub Issues, Stack Overflow, and Google Groups for community help. | The project directs users to its Google Group and Zulip chat for contact and community discussion. |
| Integrations | Listed integrations include Apache Spark, Flink, Hive, Trino, Athena, BigQuery, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, and Snowflake (Beta). | The project documents using Nessie with Spark, Flink, Hive, and Trino through Iceberg. |
| Transactions | Delta Lake supports ACID transactions and serializability, which the site describes as the strongest level of isolation. | Nessie provides cross-table transactions and visibility. |
| What it does | Delta Lake is an open-source storage framework for building format-agnostic lakehouse architectures on data lakes. | Project Nessie is a transactional catalog for data lakes with Git-like semantics and data version control. |
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Project Nessie
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