diff --git a/crates/examples/Cargo.toml b/crates/examples/Cargo.toml
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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+[package]
+name = "hudi-examples"
+version.workspace = true
+edition.workspace = true
+license.workspace = true
+rust-version.workspace = true
+keywords.workspace = true
+readme.workspace = true
+description.workspace = true
+homepage.workspace = true
+repository.workspace = true
+
+[dependencies]
+hudi = { path = "../hudi", features=["datafusion"] }
+
+[dev-dependencies]
+tokio = { workspace = true, features=["macros"] }
+datafusion = { workspace = true }
+
+[[example]]
+name = "hello"
+path = "hello.rs"
diff --git a/crates/examples/README.md b/crates/examples/README.md
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+<!--
+  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
+  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  ~ under the License.
+-->
+
+## Examples of how to use hudi-rs
+
+This directory contains a number of examples showcasing various capabilities of
+the `hudi` crate.
+
+All examples can be executed with:
+
+```
+HUDI_DATA_PATH=/your/data cargo run --example $name
+```
+
+A good starting point for the examples would be [`hello`](hello.rs).
diff --git a/crates/examples/hello.rs b/crates/examples/hello.rs
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+use std::sync::Arc;
+use std::env::var;
+
+use datafusion::{
+    error::Result,
+    prelude::{DataFrame, SessionContext},
+};
+use hudi::HudiDataSource;
+
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    let data_path = var("HUDI_DATA_PATH").unwrap_or_else(|_| "/your/hudi/data/path".to_string());
+
+    let ctx = SessionContext::new();
+    let hudi = HudiDataSource::new(&data_path).await?;
+    ctx.register_table("example", Arc::new(hudi))?;
+    let df: DataFrame = ctx.sql("SELECT * FROM example").await?;
+    df.show().await?;
+    Ok(())
+}