Storage formats, serving architecture, and experiments that end in a number, not an opinion.
Table formats say which files are the table; nothing says how a resident server should expose them without rebuilding its in-memory state. A proposal for that missing layer — snapshots that ship their own serving index — validated in four measured experiments: mmap faults pages not files, a reload gap of 30,825 failed queries goes to zero, live updates merge in 0.57 ms, and a Vortex tail tier cuts 59.6M rows to 374 MB.
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