🌪️ Vortex

📚 Documentation | 📊 Performance Benchmarks

Overview

Vortex is a next-generation columnar file format and toolkit designed for high-performance data analytics. It provides:

• ⚡️ Blazing Fast Performance

  • 100-200x faster random access reads than Apache Parquet
  • 2-10x faster scans with similar compression ratios and write throughput
  • Efficient support for wide tables with zero-copy/zero-parse metadata

• 🔧 Extensible Architecture

  • Modeled after Apache DataFusion's extensible approach
  • Pluggable encoding system
  • Zero-copy compatibility with Apache Arrow

Project Information

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

Governance

Vortex is an independent open-source project and not controlled by any single company. The Vortex Project is a sub-project of the Linux Foundation Projects. The governance model is documented in CONTRIBUTING.md and is subject to the terms of the Technical Charter.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

Acknowledgments 🏆

This project builds upon groundbreaking work from the academic and open-source communities:

Key Research Papers

• BtrBlocks - Efficient columnar compression
• FastLanes - High-performance integer compression
• FSST - Fast random access string compression
• ALP - Adaptive lossless floating-point compression
• Procella - YouTube's unified data system
• Cloud Object Storage Analytics - High-performance analytics
• ClickHouse - Fast analytics for everyone

Open Source Inspiration

• Apache Arrow & Apache DataFusion
• parquet2 by Jorge Leitao
• DuckDB
• Velox & Nimble

Trademarks

Copyright © Vortex a Series of LF Projects, LLC For web site terms of use, trademark policy and other project policies please see https://lfprojects.org

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Thanks to all contributors who have shared their knowledge and code with the community! 🚀