Install#
vx CLI#
The vx command-line tool lets you convert, inspect, browse, and query Vortex files from
the terminal.
pip install vortex-data
This also installs the Python library. See the Python quickstart for library usage.
cargo install vortex-tui
Verify the installation:
vx --help
Using Vortex as a library#
The vx CLI is the quickest way to get started, but Vortex can also be used as a library
for reading, writing, and manipulating compressed arrays programmatically. See the language
quickstarts for Python, Rust, and Java.
Sample data#
This quickstart uses the NYC Yellow Taxi trip dataset. More months and datasets are available from the NYC TLC trip record data page.
Download a single month (~50 MB Parquet):
curl -O https://d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net/trip-data/yellow_tripdata_2024-01.parquet