file formats

1. October 21, 202630 min read

   What Vortex Has to Prove Before Iceberg Adds a Fourth File Format

   The Vortex proposal split into criteria and candidate. What field IDs, statistics, governance, and ecosystem support a new Iceberg file format must prove.

2. July 28, 202630 min read

   The Parquet Versioning Problem, and Why Iceberg Cares About It

   Parquet files have a version field that doesn't reliably signal feature requirements. A new versioning discipline is coming, borrowing from Iceberg's.

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