Latest posts
Feb 26, 2026
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
Announcing Spiral
Data 3.0, with backing from the best
Aug 6, 2025
Vortex: a Linux Foundation Project
Building the Future of Open Source, Columnar Storage
Apr 30, 2025
Vortex on Ice
Using Vortex to accelerate Apache Iceberg queries up to 4x
Apr 24, 2025
Towards Vortex 1.0
Preparing to launch Vortex 1.0 and the 2025.05 Edition
Apr 14, 2025
So you want to use Object Storage
Tips and lessons learned from building systems directly against object stores
Mar 17, 2025
ALP Rust is faster than C++
How well-defined casting semantics in Rust allow for 20-50% faster ALP compression
Mar 5, 2025
What if we just didn’t decompress it?
How push-down compute helps Vortex run faster and decompress less
Feb 25, 2025
Zone maps, or “queries go brrr”
Waiting sucks. Let's use zone maps to move fast and read less.
Feb 10, 2025
Data Layouts: Where Bytes Find Their Forever Home
How Vortex tackles data layout challenges across analytics and machine learning workflows.
Feb 8, 2025
Logical vs Physical data types
The rationale behind the Vortex logical type system.
Nov 9, 2024
Compressing strings with FSST
Random access string compression with FSST and Rust.
Oct 31, 2024
Trick-or-treating with Vortex
On a journey to make your data more fun sized.
Jun 19, 2024
Life in the fastlanes
Decoding > 100 billion integers per second with scalar Rust.