ARROW-5821: [Java] Support compact fixed-width vectors #4789
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Related to ARROW-5821.
In shuffle stage of some applications, FixedWitdhVectors may have very little non-null data.
In this case, directly serialize vectors is not a good choice, generally we can compact the vector make it only holding non-null value and create a BitVector to trace the indices for non-null values so that it could be deserialized properly.