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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

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 really hard task.

The people behind these projects that are willing to try and do this, have my total respect.