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Improve Parquet documentation

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing Parquet documentation and the concerns recorded in issue #2914 to identify the current gaps. Define the cookbook, examples, and tutorials needed before making changes. Done means the documentation is updated with clear adoption guidance and the agreed examples are available.

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Description

Type: enhancement
Describe the enhancement requested

Currently the parquet docs have gaps and appear outdated. There have been several issues in the past where users reported it. (Example: #2914)
One of the suggestions from the community is to introduce a Cookbook (similar to Apache Arrow) with simple examples and docs to allow users to adopt parquet easily and improve the ecosystem support.
This issue tracks the effort for improved docs/cookbooks/tutorials.

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