[Java] Add microbenchmark code to Java

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@animeshtrivedi has done some microbenchmarking with the Java API. Let's consider adding them to the codebase.

Reporter: Li Jin / @icexelloss

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_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-3496. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

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Animesh Trivedi / @animeshtrivedi:
To give you an idea what I have so far (https://github.com/animeshtrivedi/benchmarking-arrow).) (its README is outdated). A standalone java program to : 

i) basic data generation template to generate data for integers, longs, binary column types (we can extend to include any arbitrary types and schema) 

ii) In-memory data buffers to hold the generated data in the memory (either on on or off heap buffers).  

iii) readers to consume the generated data using various APIs (calling get*(), or the holder API variant, or just writing your own readers from the direct byte buffers). 

The whole benchmark is multi-threaded and all 3 steps can be done in parallel. It is the last step usually what is benchmarked. Obviously the current code base has a whole lot more code for my own testing and understanding, but we can clean it up gradually. 

Where do we want to have this code? and how should a user run this? May be part of the default build process where benchmark is compiled as a separate jar (arrow-java-benchmarks-0.12.jar, something like this) 

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Wes McKinney / @wesm:
Since we're planning to start a benchmark database, it would be good timing to start writing some Java benchmarks. Is anyone interested in this?

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Todd Farmer / @toddfarmer:
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