Added example showing parallel writes to parquet (x num_cores)

examples/parquet_write_parallel/.gitignore

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+*.parquet

examples/parquet_write_parallel/Cargo.toml

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+[package]
+name = "parquet_write_parallel"
+version = "0.1.0"
+edition = "2018"
+
+[dependencies]
+arrow2 = { path = "../../", default-features = false, features = ["io_parquet", "io_parquet_compression"] }
+rayon = { version = "1", default-features = false }

examples/parquet_write_parallel/src/main.rs

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+/// Example demonstrating how to write to parquet in parallel.
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+use rayon::prelude::*;
+
+use arrow2::{
+    array::*, datatypes::PhysicalType, error::Result, io::parquet::write::*,
+    record_batch::RecordBatch,
+};
+
+fn parallel_write(path: &str, batch: &RecordBatch) -> Result<()> {
+    let options = WriteOptions {
+        write_statistics: true,
+        compression: Compression::Snappy,
+        version: Version::V2,
+    };
+    let encodings = batch.schema().fields().par_iter().map(|field| {
+        match field.data_type().to_physical_type() {
+            // let's be fancy and use delta-encoding for binary fields
+            PhysicalType::Binary
+            | PhysicalType::LargeBinary
+            | PhysicalType::Utf8
+            | PhysicalType::LargeUtf8 => Encoding::DeltaLengthByteArray,
+            // remaining is plain
+            _ => Encoding::Plain,
+        }
+    });
+
+    let parquet_schema = to_parquet_schema(batch.schema())?;
+
+    // write batch to pages; parallelized by rayon
+    let columns = batch
+        .columns()
+        .par_iter()
+        .zip(parquet_schema.columns().to_vec().into_par_iter())
+        .zip(encodings)
+        .map(|((array, descriptor), encoding)| {
+            let array = array.clone();
+
+            // create encoded and compressed pages this column
+            Ok(array_to_pages(array, descriptor, options, encoding)?.collect::<Vec<_>>())
+        })
+        .collect::<Result<Vec<_>>>()?;
+
+    // create the iterator over groups (one in this case)
+    // (for more batches, create the iterator from them here)
+    let row_groups = std::iter::once(Result::Ok(DynIter::new(
+        columns
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(|column| Ok(DynIter::new(column.into_iter()))),
+    )));
+
+    // Create a new empty file
+    let mut file = std::fs::File::create(path)?;
+
+    // Write the file.
+    let _file_size = write_file(
+        &mut file,
+        row_groups,
+        batch.schema(),
+        parquet_schema,
+        options,
+        None,
+    )?;
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+fn create_batch(size: usize) -> Result<RecordBatch> {
+    let c1: Int32Array = (0..size)
+        .map(|x| if x % 9 == 0 { None } else { Some(x as i32) })
+        .collect();
+    let c2: Utf8Array<i32> = (0..size)
+        .map(|x| {
+            if x % 8 == 0 {
+                None
+            } else {
+                Some(x.to_string())
+            }
+        })
+        .collect();
+
+    RecordBatch::try_from_iter([
+        ("c1", Arc::new(c1) as Arc<dyn Array>),
+        ("c2", Arc::new(c2) as Arc<dyn Array>),
+    ])
+}
+
+fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    let batch = create_batch(10_000_000)?;
+
+    parallel_write("example.parquet", &batch)
+}

guide/src/io/parquet_write.md

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 * `column chunk`: composed of multiple pages (similar of an `Array`)
 * `row group`: a group of columns with the same length (similar of a `RecordBatch` in Arrow)
 
+## Single threaded
+
 Here is an example of how to write a single column chunk into a single row group:
 
 ```rust
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 ```rust
 {{#include ../../../examples/parquet_write_record.rs}}
 ```
+
+## Multi-threaded writing
+
+As user of this crate, you will need to decide how you would like to parallelize,
+and whether order is important. Below you can find an example where we
+use [`rayon`](https://crates.io/crates/rayon) to perform the heavy lift of
+encoding and compression.
+This operation is [embarrassingly parallel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel)
+and results in a speed up equal to minimum between the number of cores
+and number of columns in the record.
+
+```rust
+{{#include ../../../examples/parquet_write_parallel/src/main.rs}}
+```