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ForwardXu 291e9e37be feat: add Tencent COS and GooseFS object store support via new feature flags (#3526)
## Summary

Closes #3525

This PR wires up two new optional object-store backends at the LanceDB
layer, exposing capabilities that already exist upstream in `lance` /
`lance-io`:

| Backend | Cargo feature | Default in Rust crate | Default in Python
wheel | Default in Node binding |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Tencent COS** | `cos`     |  off |  on |  off |
| **GooseFS**     | `goosefs` |  off |  on |  on |

Both backends are additive and do not affect existing users who don't
opt in.

## Motivation

- **Tencent COS** is the dominant object storage in the China region.
Tencent Cloud users currently need an S3-compatible proxy or a private
fork to use LanceDB against COS buckets.
- **GooseFS** is Tencent Cloud's distributed cache acceleration layer
that sits in front of COS/S3, a common pattern for vector search / AI
training where the same hot dataset is read repeatedly.
- This brings COS / GooseFS to feature parity with the existing
first-class backends (`aws`, `gcs`, `azure`, `oss`, `huggingface`).

See the linked issue #3525 for the full discussion.

## Changes

### `rust/lancedb/Cargo.toml`

Add two new optional features that pull through the corresponding
upstream feature flags:

```toml
cos = ["lance/tencent", "lance-io/tencent"]
goosefs = [
    "lance/goosefs",
    "lance-io/goosefs",
    "lance-namespace-impls/dir-goosefs",
]
```

### `python/Cargo.toml`

Enable both `cos` and `goosefs` by default for the Python wheels, so
`pip install lancedb` works against COS / GooseFS out of the box
(consistent with how `aws` / `gcs` / `azure` / `oss` are bundled today):

```diff
-default = ["remote",  "lancedb/aws", "lancedb/gcs", "lancedb/azure", "lancedb/dynamodb", "lancedb/oss", "lancedb/huggingface"]
+default = ["remote", "lancedb/aws", "lancedb/gcs", "lancedb/azure", "lancedb/dynamodb", "lancedb/oss", "lancedb/huggingface", "lancedb/cos", "lancedb/goosefs"]
```

### `nodejs/Cargo.toml`

Enable `goosefs` by default for the Node binding (COS kept opt-in to
limit the default native binary size; can be revisited based on demand):

```diff
-default = ["remote", "lancedb/aws", "lancedb/gcs", "lancedb/azure", "lancedb/dynamodb", "lancedb/oss", "lancedb/huggingface"]
+default = ["remote", "lancedb/aws", "lancedb/gcs", "lancedb/azure", "lancedb/dynamodb", "lancedb/oss", "lancedb/huggingface", "lancedb/goosefs"]
```

### `Cargo.lock`

Regenerated to reflect the transitive dependencies brought in by the new
upstream features. No manual edits.

## Example Usage

### Rust

```toml
# Cargo.toml
lancedb = { version = "0.30", features = ["cos", "goosefs"] }
```

```rust
// Tencent COS
let db = lancedb::connect("cos://my-bucket/my-db").execute().await?;

// GooseFS
let db = lancedb::connect("goosefs://my-namespace/my-db").execute().await?;
```

### Python

```python
import lancedb

db = lancedb.connect(
    "cos://my-bucket/my-db",
    storage_options={
        "secret_id": "...",
        "secret_key": "...",
        "region": "ap-guangzhou",
    },
)
```

## Backwards Compatibility

- All new features are **opt-in** at the Rust crate level (`default =
[]` for `lancedb` itself is unchanged).
- The Python wheel gains both backends by default, increasing wheel size
slightly but matching the existing pattern of bundling all major cloud
backends.
- Node binding only adds `goosefs` to defaults; existing users see no
behavior change.

## Testing

- `cargo check --all-features` 
- `cargo check -p lancedb --features cos` 
- `cargo check -p lancedb --features goosefs` 
- End-to-end COS / GooseFS smoke tests require Tencent Cloud credentials
and are intentionally not added to CI in this PR (same approach used for
`s3-test`). Happy to add a gated test feature in a follow-up if
reviewers prefer.

## Checklist

- [x] Added `cos` and `goosefs` features to `rust/lancedb/Cargo.toml`
- [x] Updated `python/Cargo.toml` default features
- [x] Updated `nodejs/Cargo.toml` default features
- [x] Regenerated `Cargo.lock`
- [x] Verified build with `--all-features`
- [ ] Documentation update (can be done in a follow-up PR once API
stabilizes)

## Related

- Issue: #3525
- Upstream support:
[`lance/tencent`](https://github.com/lance-format/lance),
[`lance/goosefs`](https://github.com/lance-format/lance)
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