The File Format Renaissance: Parquet, Lance, Vortex, Nimble, BtrBlocks, and the New Physics of Columnar Storage
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For a decade, the file format layer was the most settled real estate in data. Apache Parquet held the analytical world, ORC held the Hive legacy estates, and the interesting arguments all happened in the layers above. Then, in the span of about three years, the bottom of the stack became the most intellectually active corner of the industry: a research wave produced BtrBlocks, FastLanes, ALP, and FSST, startups building AI infrastructure shipped Lance and Vortex, Meta open-sourced Nimble from…
1Key Takeaways
- For a decade, the file format layer was the most settled real estate in data.
- Apache Parquet held the analytical world, ORC held the Hive legacy estates, and the interesting arguments all happened in the layers above.
- Then, in the span of about three years, the bottom of the stack became the most intellectually active corner of the industry: a research wave produced BtrBlocks, FastLanes, ALP, and FSST, startups building AI infrastructure shipped Lance and Vortex, Meta open-sourced Nimble from….
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that for a decade, the file format layer was the most settled real estate in data.
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