Apache Arrow upgrade

[NRHelmi]

This PR:

• upgrades apache arrow version to 9.0.0
• adds support to new java versions
• fixes the protobuf metadata integration test
• runs integration tests using jdks 11, 17 & 18
• fixes memory leak issue

If seeing errors like module java.base does not "opens java.nio" to unnamed module please make sure to run java with --add-opens=java.base/java.nio=ALL-UNNAMED argument or set JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS environment variable

export JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS="--add-opens=java.base/java.nio=ALL-UNNAMED"