Nessie integration of Iceberg REST¶

Dear Project Nessie and Apache Iceberg communities,

We’re proud to announce that we will soon integrate the Apache Iceberg REST spec into open-source Nessie! With this integration, you’ll be able to use any client that supports the Iceberg REST spec with Nessie. We plan to roll out this new capability in the next few weeks.

By integrating the Iceberg REST spec into Nessie, clients will work interchangeably with the Iceberg REST catalog and the Nessie catalog. In addition, Iceberg REST will enable Nessie to manage access to object storage more simply and securely by supporting S3 signed requests and session credentials. You’ll be able to easily use the Iceberg REST catalog with Nessie by configuring your Iceberg client to point to the Nessie Iceberg REST base URI. The existing Nessie catalog in Iceberg will be unaffected by this change.

We are actively working with the Apache Iceberg community and other major adopters to improve the Iceberg REST spec, add more features and functionality, and make it an even better option to use Nessie with Iceberg.

Please reach out to us in the Project Nessie Zulip chat or Apache Iceberg community if you’d like to ask questions or share feedback.

Best,

The Nessie OSS team