Tag: columnar storage

All the articles with the tag "columnar storage".

• 28 MIN READ•Jul 6, 2026

  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 for AI workloads.

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• 27 MIN READ•Jul 6, 2026

  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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