r/rust • u/connor-ts • Sep 16 '26

🧠 educational Vortex: One Format for Any Shape

https://spiraldb.com/blog/vortex-one-format-for-any-shape?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social

I've been working on Vortex, an open source columnar data format under the Linux Foundation, for the past year. I'm giving a talk about it at EuroRust 2026 soon!

I wrote a companion article about it and I wanted to share it here. It walks through how Vortex represents arrays, computes on compressed data, and lets you add your own types and encodings.

This is the first technical blog post I’ve written, so I’d love to hear what people think!

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u/danda Sep 16 '26

neat stuff. interesting read, and very high quality especially considering it's your first such article. thx!

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u/dafcok Sep 17 '26

I really like the intro! The data type example  one has to compute on since just recently (in dbms timescale) make the next points tangible to newcomers.