Update the website to describe the larger role of Parquet

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I personally believe Parquet will be at the center of the analytics ecosystem

https://parquet.apache.org/ currently emphasis Parquet's role in the Hadoop ecosystem. I think this causes confusion in several ways:

1. It implies that parquet is only focused on Hadoop, whem I think it is a critical technology across other ecosystems that are unrelated to hadoop (e.g. Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, etc)
2. It may further the perception that the Apache Parquet project only focuses on / cares about Hadoop / Java impleemntation

 

I would like to update the site to focus less on the hadoop aspects and more on the broader nature of Parquet

 

If people like where this is headed, I would like to next expand the documentation to explain better how the various implementations are related (e.g. how parquet-mr relates to the readers in arrow-rs, arrow, etc)

Reporter: Andrew Lamb / @alamb
Assignee: Andrew Lamb / @alamb

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #59

_{Note: This issue was originally created as PARQUET-2470. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

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Andrew Lamb / @alamb:
Proposed PR: #59

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Andrew Lamb / @alamb:
Completed in #59