2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising, responsive to the computer receiving the one or more data elements: determining, by the computer, the compression technique to apply to each of the one or more data elements based upon a schema associated with the database, wherein the computer compresses the one or more data elements using the compression technique indicated by the schema.
2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising, responsive to the computer receiving the one or more data elements: determining, by the computer, the compression technique to apply to each of the one or more data elements based upon a schema associated with the database, wherein the computer compresses the one or more data elements using the compression technique indicated by the schema. 3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the compression technique is selected from the group consisting of: token tables, n-gram compression, serial day number compression, and binary number compression.