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Inertia is a thing. Parquet and ORC and all the myriad of other formats all exist with ecosystems and things. For this to succeed they’d have to seed the community with connectors and libraries and hooks into things to make it easy to use.

Plugins for DudckDB for example to read and write to it. Heck if you got Iceberg to use it instead of parquet that could be a win.

Sometimes tech doesn’t win on the merits because of how entrenched existing stuff is and the high cost of switching.



This is why parquet is becoming standard even though it is suboptimal and every single high performance db has its own internal format.

If you need optimized format you do it yourself, if you need standard you use w/e else is using unless it is too bad.

These new formats seem like they would only be useful as research to build on when creating a specific tool or database


> Sometimes tech doesn’t win on the merits because of how entrenched existing stuff is and the high cost of switching.

Yes! Path dependence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence




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