diff --git a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/deltalengthbytearray/DeltaLengthByteArrayValuesWriter.java b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/deltalengthbytearray/DeltaLengthByteArrayValuesWriter.java
index ac63ff52ef..d614c960cc 100644
--- a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/deltalengthbytearray/DeltaLengthByteArrayValuesWriter.java
+++ b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/deltalengthbytearray/DeltaLengthByteArrayValuesWriter.java
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 import org.apache.parquet.bytes.ByteBufferAllocator;
 import org.apache.parquet.bytes.BytesInput;
 import org.apache.parquet.bytes.CapacityByteArrayOutputStream;
-import org.apache.parquet.bytes.LittleEndianDataOutputStream;
 import org.apache.parquet.column.Encoding;
 import org.apache.parquet.column.values.ValuesWriter;
 import org.apache.parquet.column.values.delta.DeltaBinaryPackingValuesWriter;
@@ -46,11 +45,9 @@ public class DeltaLengthByteArrayValuesWriter extends ValuesWriter {
 
   private ValuesWriter lengthWriter;
   private CapacityByteArrayOutputStream arrayOut;
-  private LittleEndianDataOutputStream out;
 
   public DeltaLengthByteArrayValuesWriter(int initialSize, int pageSize, ByteBufferAllocator allocator) {
     arrayOut = new CapacityByteArrayOutputStream(initialSize, pageSize, allocator);
-    out = new LittleEndianDataOutputStream(arrayOut);
     lengthWriter = new DeltaBinaryPackingValuesWriterForInteger(
         DeltaBinaryPackingValuesWriter.DEFAULT_NUM_BLOCK_VALUES,
         DeltaBinaryPackingValuesWriter.DEFAULT_NUM_MINIBLOCKS,
@@ -63,7 +60,7 @@ public DeltaLengthByteArrayValuesWriter(int initialSize, int pageSize, ByteBuffe
   public void writeBytes(Binary v) {
     try {
       lengthWriter.writeInteger(v.length());
-      v.writeTo(out);
+      v.writeTo(arrayOut);
     } catch (IOException e) {
       throw new ParquetEncodingException("could not write bytes", e);
     }
@@ -76,11 +73,6 @@ public long getBufferedSize() {
 
   @Override
   public BytesInput getBytes() {
-    try {
-      out.flush();
-    } catch (IOException e) {
-      throw new ParquetEncodingException("could not write page", e);
-    }
     LOG.debug("writing a buffer of size {}", arrayOut.size());
     return BytesInput.concat(lengthWriter.getBytes(), BytesInput.from(arrayOut));
   }
diff --git a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/plain/FixedLenByteArrayPlainValuesWriter.java b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/plain/FixedLenByteArrayPlainValuesWriter.java
index dec4d1be1b..c170ad8e90 100644
--- a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/plain/FixedLenByteArrayPlainValuesWriter.java
+++ b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/plain/FixedLenByteArrayPlainValuesWriter.java
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 import org.apache.parquet.bytes.ByteBufferAllocator;
 import org.apache.parquet.bytes.BytesInput;
 import org.apache.parquet.bytes.CapacityByteArrayOutputStream;
-import org.apache.parquet.bytes.LittleEndianDataOutputStream;
 import org.apache.parquet.column.Encoding;
 import org.apache.parquet.column.values.ValuesWriter;
 import org.apache.parquet.io.ParquetEncodingException;
@@ -37,7 +36,6 @@ public class FixedLenByteArrayPlainValuesWriter extends ValuesWriter {
   private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(PlainValuesWriter.class);
 
   private CapacityByteArrayOutputStream arrayOut;
-  private LittleEndianDataOutputStream out;
   private int length;
   private ByteBufferAllocator allocator;
 
@@ -46,7 +44,6 @@ public FixedLenByteArrayPlainValuesWriter(
     this.length = length;
     this.allocator = allocator;
     this.arrayOut = new CapacityByteArrayOutputStream(initialSize, pageSize, this.allocator);
-    this.out = new LittleEndianDataOutputStream(arrayOut);
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -56,7 +53,7 @@ public final void writeBytes(Binary v) {
           "Fixed Binary size " + v.length() + " does not match field type length " + length);
     }
     try {
-      v.writeTo(out);
+      v.writeTo(arrayOut);
     } catch (IOException e) {
       throw new ParquetEncodingException("could not write fixed bytes", e);
     }
@@ -69,11 +66,6 @@ public long getBufferedSize() {
 
   @Override
   public BytesInput getBytes() {
-    try {
-      out.flush();
-    } catch (IOException e) {
-      throw new ParquetEncodingException("could not write page", e);
-    }
     LOG.debug("writing a buffer of size {}", arrayOut.size());
     return BytesInput.from(arrayOut);
   }
diff --git a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/plain/PlainValuesWriter.java b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/plain/PlainValuesWriter.java
index c7069bc092..be5dfc0fa8 100644
--- a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/plain/PlainValuesWriter.java
+++ b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/plain/PlainValuesWriter.java
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 import org.apache.parquet.bytes.ByteBufferAllocator;
 import org.apache.parquet.bytes.BytesInput;
 import org.apache.parquet.bytes.CapacityByteArrayOutputStream;
-import org.apache.parquet.bytes.LittleEndianDataOutputStream;
 import org.apache.parquet.column.Encoding;
 import org.apache.parquet.column.values.ValuesWriter;
 import org.apache.parquet.io.ParquetEncodingException;
@@ -41,18 +40,16 @@ public class PlainValuesWriter extends ValuesWriter {
   public static final Charset CHARSET = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
 
   private CapacityByteArrayOutputStream arrayOut;
-  private LittleEndianDataOutputStream out;
 
   public PlainValuesWriter(int initialSize, int pageSize, ByteBufferAllocator allocator) {
     arrayOut = new CapacityByteArrayOutputStream(initialSize, pageSize, allocator);
-    out = new LittleEndianDataOutputStream(arrayOut);
   }
 
   @Override
   public final void writeBytes(Binary v) {
     try {
-      out.writeInt(v.length());
-      v.writeTo(out);
+      arrayOut.writeInt(v.length());
+      v.writeTo(arrayOut);
     } catch (IOException e) {
       throw new ParquetEncodingException("could not write bytes", e);
     }
@@ -60,47 +57,27 @@ public final void writeBytes(Binary v) {
 
   @Override
   public final void writeInteger(int v) {
-    try {
-      out.writeInt(v);
-    } catch (IOException e) {
-      throw new ParquetEncodingException("could not write int", e);
-    }
+    arrayOut.writeInt(v);
   }
 
   @Override
   public final void writeLong(long v) {
-    try {
-      out.writeLong(v);
-    } catch (IOException e) {
-      throw new ParquetEncodingException("could not write long", e);
-    }
+    arrayOut.writeLong(v);
   }
 
   @Override
   public final void writeFloat(float v) {
-    try {
-      out.writeFloat(v);
-    } catch (IOException e) {
-      throw new ParquetEncodingException("could not write float", e);
-    }
+    arrayOut.writeInt(Float.floatToIntBits(v));
   }
 
   @Override
   public final void writeDouble(double v) {
-    try {
-      out.writeDouble(v);
-    } catch (IOException e) {
-      throw new ParquetEncodingException("could not write double", e);
-    }
+    arrayOut.writeLong(Double.doubleToLongBits(v));
   }
 
   @Override
   public void writeByte(int value) {
-    try {
-      out.write(value);
-    } catch (IOException e) {
-      throw new ParquetEncodingException("could not write byte", e);
-    }
+    arrayOut.write(value);
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -110,11 +87,6 @@ public long getBufferedSize() {
 
   @Override
   public BytesInput getBytes() {
-    try {
-      out.flush();
-    } catch (IOException e) {
-      throw new ParquetEncodingException("could not write page", e);
-    }
     if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) LOG.debug("writing a buffer of size {}", arrayOut.size());
     return BytesInput.from(arrayOut);
   }
@@ -127,7 +99,6 @@ public void reset() {
   @Override
   public void close() {
     arrayOut.close();
-    out.close();
   }
 
   @Override
diff --git a/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/bytes/CapacityByteArrayOutputStream.java b/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/bytes/CapacityByteArrayOutputStream.java
index 84d3c5b7ba..c3ff89af25 100644
--- a/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/bytes/CapacityByteArrayOutputStream.java
+++ b/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/bytes/CapacityByteArrayOutputStream.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.ByteOrder;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 import org.apache.parquet.OutputStreamCloseException;
@@ -194,6 +195,7 @@ private void addSlab(int minimumSize) {
     LOG.debug("used {} slabs, adding new slab of size {}", slabs.size(), nextSlabSize);
 
     this.currentSlab = allocator.allocate(nextSlabSize);
+    this.currentSlab.order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN);
     this.slabs.add(currentSlab);
     this.bytesAllocated = Math.addExact(this.bytesAllocated, nextSlabSize);
   }
@@ -225,6 +227,34 @@ public void write(byte b[], int off, int len) {
     bytesUsed = Math.addExact(bytesUsed, len);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Writes an int in little-endian byte order directly to the underlying slab,
+   * bypassing intermediate byte array decomposition. Slabs are set to
+   * {@link ByteOrder#LITTLE_ENDIAN} order so {@code putInt} produces the correct encoding.
+   *
+   * @param v the int value to write
+   */
+  public void writeInt(int v) {
+    if (currentSlab.remaining() < 4) {
+      addSlab(4);
+    }
+    currentSlab.putInt(v);
+    bytesUsed = Math.addExact(bytesUsed, 4);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Writes a long in little-endian byte order directly to the underlying slab.
+   *
+   * @param v the long value to write
+   */
+  public void writeLong(long v) {
+    if (currentSlab.remaining() < 8) {
+      addSlab(8);
+    }
+    currentSlab.putLong(v);
+    bytesUsed = Math.addExact(bytesUsed, 8);
+  }
+
   private void writeToOutput(OutputStream out, ByteBuffer buf, int len) throws IOException {
     if (buf.hasArray()) {
       out.write(buf.array(), buf.arrayOffset(), len);
diff --git a/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/bytes/LittleEndianDataOutputStream.java b/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/bytes/LittleEndianDataOutputStream.java
index ef6c71bc86..d15751b14f 100644
--- a/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/bytes/LittleEndianDataOutputStream.java
+++ b/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/bytes/LittleEndianDataOutputStream.java
@@ -24,8 +24,18 @@
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 /**
- * Based on DataOutputStream but in little endian and without the String/char methods
+ * Based on DataOutputStream but in little endian and without the String/char methods.
+ *
+ * @deprecated As of release following the {@link CapacityByteArrayOutputStream#writeInt(int)}
+ *     and {@link CapacityByteArrayOutputStream#writeLong(long)} additions, this class is no
+ *     longer used by Parquet's own writers. Producers of PLAIN-encoded data should write
+ *     little-endian values directly into a {@link java.nio.ByteBuffer} configured with
+ *     {@link java.nio.ByteOrder#LITTLE_ENDIAN}, which compiles to a single intrinsic store on
+ *     little-endian architectures and avoids the per-call byte decomposition and virtual
+ *     dispatch performed here. This class is retained for binary compatibility and will be
+ *     removed in a future release.
  */
+@Deprecated
 public class LittleEndianDataOutputStream extends OutputStream {
 
   private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(LittleEndianDataOutputStream.class);