16. An apparatus comprising: a network interface configured to: receive, from a user device, a data query request that includes at least one search parameter; search for the at least one search parameter in at least one data record within a plurality of files that are stored according to a hierarchical organizational structure, wherein the hierarchical organizational structure includes at least one root and at least one tier including the plurality of files, and each of the plurality of files includes the at least one data record; and a processor configured to: determine whether a file of the plurality of files matches a portion of the at least one search parameter; upon determining the file of the plurality of files matches the portion of the at least one search parameter, set the file as a candidate file, determine which record included by the candidate file includes the at least one search parameter, by: generating a plurality of query processing threads associated with the query request, for each respective query processing thread, determining a sub-portion of the candidate file, and as each query processing thread generates resultant data, providing the resultant data for result analysis, and generate, via the result analysis, query results from the resultant data; and wherein the network interface is also configured to: while continuing to generate the query results, stream, to the user device, the query results after at least one query result becomes available and before the query requests have been fully generated.
16. An apparatus comprising: a network interface configured to: receive, from a user device, a data query request that includes at least one search parameter; search for the at least one search parameter in at least one data record within a plurality of files that are stored according to a hierarchical organizational structure, wherein the hierarchical organizational structure includes at least one root and at least one tier including the plurality of files, and each of the plurality of files includes the at least one data record; and a processor configured to: determine whether a file of the plurality of files matches a portion of the at least one search parameter; upon determining the file of the plurality of files matches the portion of the at least one search parameter, set the file as a candidate file, determine which record included by the candidate file includes the at least one search parameter, by: generating a plurality of query processing threads associated with the query request, for each respective query processing thread, determining a sub-portion of the candidate file, and as each query processing thread generates resultant data, providing the resultant data for result analysis, and generate, via the result analysis, query results from the resultant data; and wherein the network interface is also configured to: while continuing to generate the query results, stream, to the user device, the query results after at least one query result becomes available and before the query requests have been fully generated. 18. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the hierarchical organizational structure defines that for each tenant of a multi-tenant computing system, only files associated with the respective tenant are stored within a respective partitioned portion of the plurality of files; wherein the data query request includes an indication of one or more indicated tenants whose data is to be searched; and wherein the processor is configured to scan only the partitioned portions of the plurality of files associated with the indicated tenants.