Blog on Complex Types

[alamb]

• Part of [Epic] Blog Posts #146

The way Parquet handles nested types using the dremel shredding model can be somewhat confusing

It would be nice to have a blog post on https://parquet.apache.org/blog/ with a high level

1. Explain the usecase of complex types types (and how it varies from Variant, for example)
2. Gives a technical overview of the types (e.g. how they are stored)

[alamb]

I think that @ArnavBalyan said on the mailing list https://lists.apache.org/thread/ksgkt6vc8wg9qc9my1759r2xcx61wbvl that he was working on a post.

+1 - I’d be happy to contribute a short write-up on how Parquet handles complex nested data types.

Just sharing this link so we can collaborate together!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cx61Fp82HHB8TvePO4bFIbX1EXvv9Sy8Wx_YnyKeeW8/edit?tab=t.0