F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future
Summary: F3: a self‑describing columnar format that embeds metadata and portable WebAssembly decoders in each file for platform‑agnostic, forward‑compatible decoding. Offers an extensible storage layout and API for adding encodings, avoiding repeated format rewrites; evaluated against Parquet/ORC with low Wasm overhead. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 11 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Xinyu Zeng (Tsinghua University)
- 2. Ruijun Meng (Tsinghua University)
- 3. Martin Prammer (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 4. Wes McKinney (Posit)
- 5. Jignesh M. Patel (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 6. Andrew Pavlo (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 7. Huanchen Zhang (Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute; Tsinghua University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{zeng_sigmod26,
title = {{F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future}},
author = {Zeng, Xinyu and Meng, Ruijun and Prammer, Martin and McKinney, Wes and Patel, Jignesh M. and Pavlo, Andrew and Zhang, Huanchen},
series = {{SIGMOD} '26},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3749163},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3749163},
year = {2026}
}
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| 10,536 | Active Data Lakes: Regaining Physical Data Independence Without Losing Interoperability | 2026 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,078 | LiquidCache: Efficient Pushdown Caching for Cloud-Native Data Analytics | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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