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lance
Modern columnar data format for ML and LLMs implemented in Rust. Convert from parquet in 2 lines of code for 100x faster random access, vector index, and data versioning. Compatible with Pandas, DuckDB, Polars, Pyarrow, and PyTorch with more integrations coming..
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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vortex
Discontinued A toolkit for working with compressed array data [Moved to: https://github.com/spiraldb/vortex] (by fulcrum-so)
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The two versions of Parquet
Meanwhile, in the Machine Learning world, Parquet and ORC have become limiting, requiring specialized features such as handling files with thousands of columns. To address this, two new formats have emerged: Nimble from Facebook and LV2 from LanceDB.
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An Empirical Evaluation of Columnar Storage Formats [pdf]
Nice to see methodology here. Ideally Lancedb lance v2 and nimble would also both be represented here. It feels like there's huge appetite to do better than Parquet; ideally work like this would help inform where we go next.
https://blog.lancedb.com/lance-v2/
https://github.com/facebookincubator/nimble
- The Nimble File Format by Meta
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facebookincubator/nimble is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of nimble is C++.
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