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Jack Ye 83595ac839 docs: add data types to Basics, split the demo gallery, regroup tabs
Basics gains a Schema & Data Types section -- the Arrow types a table can hold,
the extension types Lance adds on top (lance.json, lance.blob.v2,
lance.bfloat16), and where geospatial actually stands. The multimodal page moves
in beside it. Consistency joins Basics too, after Query & Job.

Query & Job now leads with the thing the _async convention actually gives you: a
handle. execute_query_async returns a query, everything else returns a job, and
both answer the same four questions -- which one, how is it going, give me the
result, stop. Only the third differs, because a query produces rows to stream
and a job produces an outcome to wait for.

Management gains a Materialized View page. Creating one was documented only on
the refresh page, and the stable-row-ids requirement is a creation-time
decision that cannot be undone.

Embeddings move to Integrations as the Embedding Registry, which is what they
are -- a client-side feature that wraps provider models, sitting above the
providers it registers.

The demo gallery was three apps on one page; it is now three pages. Use Cases
folds into Tutorials as Tutorials and Use Cases.
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