columnar storage

1. July 6, 202628 min read

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

   Apache Parquet is thirteen years old, holds more of the world's analytical data than any format ever created, and for most of its life has been the…

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…

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