2 posts tagged with "columnar storage"

• The File Format Renaissance: Parquet, Lance, Vortex, Nimble, BtrBlocks, and the New Physics of Columnar Storage

  July 06, 2026

  Cross-posted. This article’s canonical home is Alex Merced’s Lakehouse Blog. The File Format Renaissance: Parquet, Lance, Vortex, Nimble…

• The State of Apache Parquet in 2026: The Quiet Format Enters Its Loudest Decade

  July 06, 2026

  Apache Parquet in 2026 — variant types, geospatial, ALP encoding, footer redesign, the versioning debate, and how the decade-old format is renovating for AI workloads.