Engine 0.9.0

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✨ Features & Enhancements

• Use object store for rocksdb and debugging (feat: Use object store for rocksdb and debugging #503)
• Use object_store to write files (feat: Use object_store to write files #492)
• Use object_store to read prepare inputs (feat: Use object_store to read prepare inputs #495)
• support type inference for map<k,v> (feat: support type inference for map<k,v> #482)
• Kafka Backed Sources API Proposal (feat: Kafka Backed Sources API Proposal #458)
• Use metadata for retrieving the schema (feat: Use metadata for retrieving the schema #479)
• expression evaluation for new plans (feat: expression evaluation for new plans #463)
• Prepare directly to object stores (feat: Prepare directly to object stores #475)
• Use object_store for metadata (feat: Use object_store for metadata #476)
• Read directly during compute (feat: Read directly during compute #471)
• use explicit type variable in signatures (feat: use explicit type variable in signatures #457)

🐞 Bug fixes

• clippy warnings in collection_tests (fix: clippy warnings in collection_tests #496)
• manager make directory for sqlite (bug: manager make directory for sqlite #461)
• fix materialization stop signal (bug: fix materialization stop signal  #451)
• feature flags in main (fix: feature flags in main #452)

🛠️ Other improvements

13 changes

• updated versions for release (updated versions for release #523)
• fixed gcs file loading and query (fixed gcs file loading and query #507)
• Run clippy --fix (lint: Run clippy --fix #506)
• Cleanup object_store code a bit (ref: Cleanup object_store code a bit #501)
• improved reliability of integration tests (improved reliability of integration tests #490)
• Upgrade Arrow, Parquet and Object Store (build: Upgrade Arrow, Parquet and Object Store #491)
• fixes wren unit test flakiness (fixes wren unit test flakiness #488)
• changed default behavior of file-load to leave files in-place (changed default behavior of file-load to leave files in-place #472)
• cleanup comment in expressions (minor: cleanup comment in expressions #487)
• Move hashing to sparrow-arrow (ref: Move hashing to sparrow-arrow #454)
• Upgrade to Arrow 42 (deps: Upgrade to Arrow 42 #455)
• Update Pulsar Output Per Batch (Update Pulsar Output Per Batch #450)
• added materialization integration tests with pulsar sources & destinations (added materialization integration tests with pulsar sources & destinations  #448)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible!
@bjchambers, @epinzur, @jordanrfrazier, @kevinjnguyen, @sachelsout and @therapon

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