From 8e45c179dad36bff1f195c3a287f7751ad14b0f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nihal Rajak <nihal24rajak@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 19:38:46 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] docs: add Ballista link to landing page (#17746)

This adds a link and description for DataFusion Ballista to the landing page, as suggested in issue #17746. Ballista is a distributed compute platform built on top of DataFusion.

Closes: #17746
---
 docs/source/index.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/source/index.rst b/docs/source/index.rst
index edc6d311ceee..4815f5bd1c49 100644
--- a/docs/source/index.rst
+++ b/docs/source/index.rst
@@ -51,12 +51,15 @@ The following related subprojects target end users and have separate documentati
   queries.
 - `DataFusion Comet <https://datafusion.apache.org/comet/>`_ is an accelerator for Apache Spark based on
   DataFusion.
+- `DataFusion Ballista <https://arrow.apache.org/ballista/>`_ is a distributed compute platform built on
+  top of DataFusion for scalable execution.
 
 "Out of the box," DataFusion offers `SQL <https://datafusion.apache.org/user-guide/sql/index.html>`_
 and `Dataframe <https://docs.rs/datafusion/latest/datafusion/dataframe/struct.DataFrame.html>`_ APIs,
 excellent `performance <https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/>`_, built-in support for CSV, Parquet, JSON, and Avro,
 extensive customization, and a great community.
 `Python Bindings <https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python>`_ are also available.
+A distributed compute platform is also available via `Ballista <https://arrow.apache.org/ballista/>`_.
 
 DataFusion features a full query planner, a columnar, streaming, multi-threaded,
 vectorized execution engine, and partitioned data sources. You can

From 002eaac3529747736e72866634341790b24984f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nihal Rajak <nihal24rajak@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:50:16 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] fix(docs): update Ballista link

---
 docs/source/index.rst | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/source/index.rst b/docs/source/index.rst
index 4815f5bd1c49..a6456f5a5e14 100644
--- a/docs/source/index.rst
+++ b/docs/source/index.rst
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ The following related subprojects target end users and have separate documentati
   queries.
 - `DataFusion Comet <https://datafusion.apache.org/comet/>`_ is an accelerator for Apache Spark based on
   DataFusion.
-- `DataFusion Ballista <https://arrow.apache.org/ballista/>`_ is a distributed compute platform built on
+- `DataFusion Ballista <https://datafusion.apache.org/ballista/>`_ is a distributed compute platform built on
   top of DataFusion for scalable execution.
 
 "Out of the box," DataFusion offers `SQL <https://datafusion.apache.org/user-guide/sql/index.html>`_
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ and `Dataframe <https://docs.rs/datafusion/latest/datafusion/dataframe/struct.Da
 excellent `performance <https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/>`_, built-in support for CSV, Parquet, JSON, and Avro,
 extensive customization, and a great community.
 `Python Bindings <https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python>`_ are also available.
-A distributed compute platform is also available via `Ballista <https://arrow.apache.org/ballista/>`_.
+A distributed compute platform is also available via `Ballista <https://datafusion.apache.org/ballista/>`_.
 
 DataFusion features a full query planner, a columnar, streaming, multi-threaded,
 vectorized execution engine, and partitioned data sources. You can
@@ -166,6 +166,6 @@ To get started, see
    :maxdepth: 1
    :caption: DataFusion Subprojects
 
-   DataFusion Ballista <https://arrow.apache.org/ballista/>
+   DataFusion Ballista <https://datafusion.apache.org/ballista/>
    DataFusion Comet <https://datafusion.apache.org/comet/>
    DataFusion Python <https://datafusion.apache.org/python/>

From 485f935c77f2196160f7661e53cbca2484da9a83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nihal Rajak <nihal24rajak@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:06:09 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] updated theory part

---
 docs/source/index.rst | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/source/index.rst b/docs/source/index.rst
index a6456f5a5e14..574c285b0e65 100644
--- a/docs/source/index.rst
+++ b/docs/source/index.rst
@@ -51,15 +51,14 @@ The following related subprojects target end users and have separate documentati
   queries.
 - `DataFusion Comet <https://datafusion.apache.org/comet/>`_ is an accelerator for Apache Spark based on
   DataFusion.
-- `DataFusion Ballista <https://datafusion.apache.org/ballista/>`_ is a distributed compute platform built on
-  top of DataFusion for scalable execution.
+- `DataFusion Ballista <https://datafusion.apache.org/ballista/>`_ is distributed processing extension for DataFusion.
 
 "Out of the box," DataFusion offers `SQL <https://datafusion.apache.org/user-guide/sql/index.html>`_
 and `Dataframe <https://docs.rs/datafusion/latest/datafusion/dataframe/struct.DataFrame.html>`_ APIs,
 excellent `performance <https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/>`_, built-in support for CSV, Parquet, JSON, and Avro,
 extensive customization, and a great community.
 `Python Bindings <https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python>`_ are also available.
-A distributed compute platform is also available via `Ballista <https://datafusion.apache.org/ballista/>`_.
+`Ballista <https://datafusion.apache.org/ballista/>`_ is Apache DataFusion extension enabling the parallelized execution of workloads across multiple nodes in a distributed environment.
 
 DataFusion features a full query planner, a columnar, streaming, multi-threaded,
 vectorized execution engine, and partitioned data sources. You can