--- title: Git for Data Applied | daily.dev description: A deep-dive comparison of Git-like versioning tools for data, covering LakeFS, Dolt, Nessie, Bauplan, MotherDuck, DuckLake, Neon, and Supabase. Each tool is... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/vdamntkfj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Git for Data Applied | daily.dev og:description: A deep-dive comparison of Git-like versioning tools for data, covering LakeFS, Dolt, Nessie, Bauplan, MotherDuck, DuckLake, Neon, and Supabase. Each tool is... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/vdamntkfj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vdamnTkFJ.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Git for Data Applied **[DuckDB dev](https://daily.dev/sources/duckdbdev)** · [@sspaeti](https://daily.dev/sspaeti) · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A deep-dive comparison of Git-like versioning tools for data, covering LakeFS, Dolt, Nessie, Bauplan, MotherDuck, DuckLake, Neon, and Supabase. Each tool is examined for how it separates metadata from data to enable zero-copy branching, snapshots, time travel, and rollbacks without duplicating petabytes. The tools are grouped into three categories: data lake versioning (object storage), transactional/OLTP databases, and analytical databases. The article also covers related workflows like Dagster branch deployments and AI agent testing on isolated data branches. A comparison table of GitHub activity metrics is included to assess ecosystem health. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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