API improvements for Arrow arrays

A number of improvements have been suggested over the years to improve the Arrow APIs. Some of these would be backwards-incompatible.

Implement IEqualityComparer<Schema>
Implement IEqualityComparer<Field>
Fix implementation of IEquatable on arrays
Standardize on a base class instead of an interface
Add pretty-printing methods
Define scalar types for all Arrow types
FixedSizeBinaryArray somehow ended up in namespace Apache.Arrow.Arrays instead of Apache.Arrow like the other arrays.

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