columnar storage

1. July 6, 202628 min read

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

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

2. July 6, 202627 min read

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

   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 es...

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