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2026-07-13
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artificial-intelligence
The File Format Renaissance: Parquet, Lance, Vortex, Nimble, BtrBlocks, and the New Physics of Columnar Storage
A wave of new file formats—including Lance, Nimble, and Vortex—is challenging Apache Parquet's dominance in columnar storage, driven by AI workloads and hardware evolution. These formats address Parqu…