http://asubiotto.com/tags/vortex/Recent content in Vortex on Alfonso SubiottoHugoen-usTue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000http://asubiotto.com/writing/interface-parquet-vortex/Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000http://asubiotto.com/writing/interface-parquet-vortex/<p>An exploration of how Polar Signals migrated their profiling database from Apache Parquet to Vortex, achieving a 70% average performance improvement across all queries. The shift demonstrates how interface design choices can impose unexpected limitations on system performance.</p> <p>Parquet&rsquo;s &ldquo;retrieval&rdquo; differs fundamentally from &ldquo;querying&rdquo;—converting Parquet files to Arrow format for actual computation consumed significant CPU resources. Vortex, with its zero-copy conversion to Arrow and SIMD-friendly encodings, proved to be a better fit for our use case.</p>