[docs] Add Variant storage documentation#8597
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What changed
Why
Paimon supports Variant binary storage and Variant shredding, but the multimodal documentation did not provide a focused explanation of when to use Variant instead of a JSON string or how shredding changes physical reads.
User impact
Users now have a single guide for choosing Variant, configuring shredding, and understanding the Spark and Flink version and Parquet format requirements.
Validation
git diff --checknpx --yes yarn buildThe Docusaurus build completed successfully. It reported the existing site-wide broken link warning for
/docs/master/concepts/overview.