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…
Smolbren, a new CLI tool, turns Markdown vaults into local, queryable knowledge graphs with full-text search, using frontmatter to discover ontology and supporting Cypher queries and BM25 search. Desi…
ModernRelay launched Omnigraph, an open-source graph engine designed for multi-agent coordination and context assembly, featuring Git-style branching, multimodal retrieval, and object-storage-native a…
DuckDB has integrated vector and hybrid search capabilities with the Lance lakehouse format, enabling AI workloads directly from SQL queries. SQLite addressed a security vulnerability with a fix for C…
ByteDance released Lance, an open-source multimodal AI model with 3 billion active parameters that natively handles image generation, video generation, editing, and visual reasoning within a single fr…