Vortex: One Format for Any Shape
Modern data comes in all shapes and sizes. Time series for observability, deeply nested JSON for event data, vector embeddings for AI/ML workloads: each wants to be stored differently. However, most data systems lock down their types and compression, leaving no clean path when your data doesn't fit.
Vortex is a next-generation columnar data format, built in Rust and open source under the Linux Foundation. Both its types and compression are extensible, so one format fits any shape of data.
We'll dig into how Vortex's cascading compression works and how you can extend Vortex yourself. You'll see where these abstractions bend, and where Rust pays off.
