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An extensible, state of the art columnar file format. Formerly at @spiraldb, now a Linux Foundation project (@LFAIDataFdn). Apache-2.0
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Happy to share that I've been nominated to the @vortexdotdev Technical Steering Committee! It's been fun and productive switching to Vortex from Parquet as our storage format at Polar Signals and I'm excited to continue contributing to the Vortex project.
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Super cool, they forked @DeltaLakeOSS to replace Parquet (for data) with Vortex and JSON (for metadata) with Vortex. Huge performance gains! Maybe we should upstream this one 😁 @vortexdotdev
🧊 New on the Polar Signals Blog — Our Delta Lake Fork Purpose-built for our continuous profiling product. In our latest post, we walk through how Delta Lake works, and the changes we've made to improve performance for our product. 👉 Read the full post: https://t.co/KqcJIe0VAq
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So cool!! Polar Signals reduced query runtimes by 70% switching from Parquet to Vortex 🤯🚀
We completed a major project to switch our storage file format from Parquet to Vortex 🌪️ resulting in 70% average query performance improvement across the board 🚀 Learn more about how rethinking interface-imposed limitations unlocked these gains in our latest blog post 👇
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We completed a major project to switch our storage file format from Parquet to Vortex 🌪️ resulting in 70% average query performance improvement across the board 🚀 Learn more about how rethinking interface-imposed limitations unlocked these gains in our latest blog post 👇
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The talk on @SpiralDB at @CMUDB : https://t.co/6mRfsnDZiP is a great one. I think it would also be interesting to hear a counterpoint about @ApacheParquet that explains actual technical details of that format, the Cathedral vs Bizzaar management, options with Metadata, etc
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Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Will Manning (@_willmanning) will present @SpiralDB's Vortex file format (@vortexdotdev). Vortex is now a @LFAIDataFdn project. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after:
db.cs.cmu.edu
Apache Parquet revolutionized columnar storage after its initial release in 2013, but... Read More +
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@valyala @pauldix @andrewlamb1111 You'd also probably want to do some form of compaction. And check out @vortexdotdev
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Go check out our latest post, sharing new developments from the past month 🗓️💻☕️ https://t.co/PmltbiDWXJ
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Overview of all work happening in Vortex
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Our CTO @ngates_ wrote a blog post on donating Vortex (@vortexdotdev) to the Linux Foundation, and what's next for the project
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It's official: Vortex has been accepted as an Incubation-stage @linuxfoundation project 🍾 The core of the Composable Data Stack is, and always will be, open source. We believe @vortexdotdev can serve as a new extensible storage layer for the next era of builders. The Linux
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