Tag:file formats

Articles tagged "file formats".

• 31 MIN READ•Oct 21, 2026

  What Vortex Has to Prove Before Iceberg Adds a Fourth File Format

  The Vortex proposal split into criteria and candidate. What field IDs, statistics, governance, and ecosystem support a new Iceberg file format must prove.

  Apache IcebergVortexParquet
• 31 MIN READ•Jul 28, 2026

  The Parquet Versioning Problem, and Why Iceberg Cares About It

  Parquet files have a version field that doesn't reliably signal feature requirements. A new versioning discipline is coming, borrowing from Iceberg's.

  ParquetApache IcebergData Engineering