facebookincubator/nimble
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New and extensible file format for storage of large columnar datasets.
7 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2024-05-15 · latest 2026-06-23
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…I might be missing a few more. [1] https://github.com/lance-format/lance [2] https://vortex.dev [3] https://github.com/facebookincubator/nimble
comment by cpard · 2026-02-15 · in Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide -
…Lance columnar format is one: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb And Nimble from Meta is another: https://github.com/facebookincubator/nimble Parquet is so core to data infra and widespread, that removing it from its throne is a really…
comment by cpard · 2025-11-20 · in Vortex: An extensible, state of the art columnar file format -
…plan fell through after about a year, and then everyone released their own format: → Meta's Nimble: https://github.com/facebookincubator/nimble → CWI's FastLanes: https://github.com/cwida/FastLanes → SpiralDB's Vortex: https://vortex.dev →…
comment by apavlo · 2025-10-02 · in F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf] -
…- Vortex https://github.com/vortex-data/vortex - Lance https://github.com/lancedb/lance - Nimble https://github.com/facebookincubator/nimble There are also a bunch of ideas coming out of academia, but I don't know how many of them have a…
comment by MasterIdiot · 2025-07-15 · in Embedding user-defined indexes in Apache Parquet -
…folks, formerly known as Alpha); I think there are a few others https://github.com/lancedb/lance https://github.com/facebookincubator/nimble
comment by dkdcio · 2025-07-15 · in Embedding user-defined indexes in Apache Parquet -
…ideally work like this would help inform where we go next. https://blog.lancedb.com/lance-v2/ https://github.com/facebookincubator/nimble
comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-05-15 · in An Empirical Evaluation of Columnar Storage Formats [pdf]