As others said, Vortex is complementary to the table Formats you mentioned. There are other formats though that it can be compared to. The Lance columnar form

As others said, Vortex is complementary to the table Formats you mentioned. There are other formats though that it can be compared to. The Lance columnar format is one: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb And Nimble from Meta is another: https://github.com/facebookincubator/nimble https://github.com/facebookincubator/nimble Parquet is so core to data infra and widespread, that removing it from its throne is a really really hard task. The people behind these projects that are willing to try and do this, have my total respect.