
vortex
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vortex
@vortexdotdev
An extensible, state of the art columnar file format. Formerly at @spiraldb, now a Linux Foundation project (@LFAIDataFdn). Apache-2.0


DuckDB now supports reading from and writing to the Vortex file format! The DuckDB Labs and Spiral teams have worked together to make Vortex available as a core extension in DuckDB. Vortex is an open source, columnar file format whose design is heavily influenced by recent research in lightweight compression encodings, computing and IO techniques. We gave it a test drive, and it performed very well. Read the full article to learn more lnkd.in/eZfGzPiZ



🧊 New on the Polar Signals Blog — Our Delta Lake Fork Purpose-built for our continuous profiling product. In our latest post, we walk through how Delta Lake works, and the changes we've made to improve performance for our product. 👉 Read the full post: buff.ly/KwHINtO

We completed a major project to switch our storage file format from Parquet to Vortex 🌪️ resulting in 70% average query performance improvement across the board 🚀 Learn more about how rethinking interface-imposed limitations unlocked these gains in our latest blog post 👇









