NEAREST BY Join: Scaling Vector Search in Databricks Runtime

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What happened
How Databricks built batch vector search as a native SQL join: NEAREST BY syntax, Photon GEMM kernels, and an IVF Vector Index built on Liquid Clustered Delta tables.
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