docs: add a note about database drivers in Docker builds (#27020)

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To accelerate builds, we follow Docker best practices and use `apache/superset-cache`.
## About database drivers
Our docker images come with little to zero database driver support since
each envrionment requires different drivers, and mataining a build with
wide database support would be both challenging (dozens of databases,
python drivers, and os dependencies) and inefficient (longer
build times, larger images, lower layer cache hit rate, ...).
For production use cases, we recommend that you derive our `lean` image(s) and
add database support for the database you need.
## On ARM builds and working with Apple silicon
Apple's current generation of computers uses ARM-based CPUs, and Docker