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Jul 10, 2026 · by Martin Prammer and Joe Isaacs
Compile or Prefilter?
Two teams independently built SQL LIKE over FSST-compressed strings: Vortex prefilters candidates, TU Munich compiles the pattern. One experiment across seven x86 generations maps where each wins, where they cross, and why the two hot loops belong in one system.
Jul 10, 2026 · by Joe Isaacs and Martin Prammer
Matching LIKE in the FSST Domain
Evaluating SQL LIKE directly on FSST-compressed strings: a symbol-aware automaton and a SIMD prefilter let Vortex match without decompressing the column first.
Feb 26, 2026 · by Nicholas Gates
Have your cake and decompress it too
How Vortex uses BtrBlocks-style codec selection to beat Parquet+ZSTD on both size and speed.
Sep 11, 2025 · by Will Manning
Announcing Spiral
Data 3.0, with backing from the best
Aug 6, 2025 · by Nicholas Gates and Will Manning
Vortex: a Linux Foundation Project
Building the Future of Open Source, Columnar Storage
Apr 30, 2025 · by Andrew Duffy
Vortex on Ice
Using Vortex to accelerate Apache Iceberg queries up to 4x
Apr 24, 2025 · by Nicholas Gates
Towards Vortex 1.0
Preparing to launch Vortex 1.0 and the 2025.05 Edition
Apr 14, 2025 · by Adam Gutglick
So you want to use Object Storage
Tips and lessons learned from building systems directly against object stores
Mar 17, 2025 · by Robert Kruszewski
ALP Rust is faster than C++
How well-defined casting semantics in Rust allow for 20-50% faster ALP compression
Mar 5, 2025 · by Nicholas Gates
What if we just didn’t decompress it?
How push-down compute helps Vortex run faster and decompress less
Feb 25, 2025 · by Daniel King
Zone maps, or “queries go brrr”
Waiting sucks. Let's use zone maps to move fast and read less.
Feb 10, 2025 · by Robert Kruszewski
Data Layouts: Where Bytes Find Their Forever Home
How Vortex tackles data layout challenges across analytics and machine learning workflows.
Feb 8, 2025 · by Nicholas Gates
Logical vs Physical data types
The rationale behind the Vortex logical type system.
Nov 9, 2024 · by Andrew Duffy
Compressing strings with FSST
Random access string compression with FSST and Rust.
Oct 31, 2024 · by Andrew Duffy
Trick-or-treating with Vortex
On a journey to make your data more fun sized.
Jun 19, 2024 · by Nicholas Gates
Life in the fastlanes
Decoding > 100 billion integers per second with scalar Rust.