docs: split Lance Catalog from Lance Lakehouse

One page was carrying two layers. The catalog answers what exists and what it is
called -- names, hierarchy, resolution, and the grants that follow the
hierarchy. The lakehouse is everything that acts on those names: storing rows,
searching them, deriving new ones, and keeping it all fast.

Separating them makes the dependency visible. The catalog is a specification
another engine can implement, which is why a Lance table is reachable without
LanceDB; the lakehouse is where the cost and the tuning live. Governance belongs
to the catalog because the hierarchy is what a grant attaches to, and
maintenance belongs to the lakehouse because it is the files being rewritten.

Also fixes a corruption from an earlier bulk link rewrite: "central
metadata/catalog services" in prose had become a path.
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Jack Ye
2026-09-25 17:43:19 -07:00
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"pages": [
"basics/lance",
"basics/catalog",
"basics/lakehouse",
"basics/query",
"basics/jobs",
"tables/consistency",