Epic: Improving integration with Java ecosystem

[majin1102]

As metioned in #3742 This is the epic issue for collecting features/enhancements to improve Java ecosystem integration.

I will help to collect related issues/PR after 2025.06.06 and update the issue list periodically. Everyone is welcome to add relevant issues here. I'll also periodically update this issue list.

Updating this issue is for convenience and good, not necessary and should not block any contribution work

Meaningful issues

• Brings transaction api for java module #4201
• Brings java lance schema into java module #4202
• Implement version control api in JAVA #3944
• Support tag operations in Java API #3957
• Java merge-insert API #4050

Java api

• feat(java): support checkout version #3907
• feat(java): support list versions and checkout version in Dataset #3945
• feat(java): support tag operations on Java dataset #3958
• feat(java): support restoring to the checked out version #3969
• feat(java): support config operation for Dataset #4039
• feat(java): support get lance schema with field ids #4207
• feat(java): support replace schema and field metadata #4119
• feat(java): expose sql api for java api #4328

Transaction

• feat(java): brings transaction api to Java module and support project #4219
• feat(java): introduce overwrite and append in transaction #4327

Merge insert(upsert)

• feat: merge-insert jni support #4172