LUCENE-8739: custom codec providing Zstandard compression/decompression

[praveennish]

Description

#9784

Lucene currently supports LZ4 and Zlib compression/decompression for StoredFieldsFormat. We propose Zstandard (https://facebook.github.io/zstd/) compression/decompression for StoredFieldsFormat for the following reasons:

• ZStandard is being used in some of the most popular open source projects like Apache Cassandra, Hadoop, and Kafka.
• Zstandard, at the default setting of 3, is expected to show substantial improvements in both compression and decompression speed while compressing at the same ratio as Zlib as per study mentioned by Yann Collet at Facebook (https://engineering.fb.com/2016/08/31/core-data/smaller-and-faster-data-compression-with-zstandard/).
• Zstandard currently offers 22 different Compression levels, which enable flexible, granular trade-offs between compression speed and ratios for future data. This solution also provides the flexibility of choosing compression levels between 1 and 22. For example, we can use level 1 if speed is most important and level 22 if the size is most important.
• Zstandard designed to scale with modern hardware(https://engineering.fb.com/2016/08/31/core-data/smaller-and-faster-data-compression-with-zstandard/).

Solution

• Developed a custom codec to enable Zstandard compression/decompression support.
• This custom codec also provides flexibility to add any other compression algorithms.

Tests

• Added required test case for testing new custom codec. Ran with option -Dtests.codec for newly developed custom codec

Checklist

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• [X] I have created a Jira issue and added the issue ID to my pull request title.
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• [X] I have developed this patch against the main branch.
• [X] I have run ./gradlew check.
• [X] I have added tests for my changes.

[ssigut]

Is this PR going to be merged? What release is this planned for?

[jpountz]

See discussion on LUCENE-8739, this PR is unlikely going to get merged.

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