Vortex is an extensible, state-of-the-art columnar file format, with associated tools for working with compressed Apache Arrow arrays in-memory, on-disk, and over-the-wire. Vortex is an aspiring successor to Apache Parquet, with dramatically faster random access reads (100-200x faster) and scans (2-10x faster), while preserving approximately the same compression ratio and write throughput as Parqu