Basic full text search capabilities (#62)

This is v1 of integrating full text search index into LanceDB.

# API
The query API is roughly the same as before, except if the input is text
instead of a vector we assume that its fts search.

## Example
If `table` is a LanceDB LanceTable, then:

Build index: `table.create_fts_index("text")`

Query: `df = table.search("puppy").limit(10).select(["text"]).to_df()`

# Implementation
Here we use the tantivy-py package to build the index. We then use the
row id's as the full-text-search index's doc id then we just do a Take
operation to fetch the rows.

# Limitations

1. don't support incremental row appends yet. New data won't show up in
search
2. local filesystem only 
3. requires building tantivy explicitly

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Co-authored-by: Chang She <chang@lancedb.com>
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@@ -45,5 +45,6 @@ We will be adding completed demo apps built using LanceDB.
* [`Basic Operations`](basic.md) - basic functionality of LanceDB.
* [`Embedding Functions`](embedding.md) - functions for working with embeddings.
* [`Indexing`](ann_indexes.md) - create vector indexes to speed up queries.
* [`Full text search`](fts.md) - [EXPERIMENTAL] full-text search API
* [`Ecosystem Integrations`](integrations.md) - integrating LanceDB with python data tooling ecosystem.
* [`API Reference`](python.md) - detailed documentation for the LanceDB Python SDK.