Per spec 8 byte alignment and padding for buffers. **Reporter**: [Micah Kornfield](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-186) / @emkornfield #### PRs and other links: - [GitHub Pull Request apache/arrow#98](https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/98) <sub>**Note**: *This issue was originally created as [ARROW-186](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-186). Please see the [migration documentation](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/14542) for further details.*</sub>