Announcing Vortex Support in DuckDB
Summary
DuckDB announces Vortex support, introducing a new columnar file format designed for late materialization and compute-on-read. The article details Vortex design, encodings, dynamic extensions, and a TPC-H benchmark showing strong performance gains over Parquet variants. It also explains the DuckDB Vortex extension and its applicability to analytics and ML preprocessing pipelines.