28. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by a computer executing a partitioner module of an in-memory database system comprising one or more computing devices hosting an in-memory database, one or more collections of one or more records of the in-memory database from a search conductor of the in-memory database system according to a machine-readable schema file, wherein each of the collections comprises a set of one or more records of the in-memory database, each record having one or more fields; partitioning, by the computer, each collection according to the schema file; compressing, by the computer, the records in the partition according to the schema file; and distributing, by the computer, each of the partitions to one or more associated search conductors to include each of the partitions in each collection corresponding to a partitioner associated with the search conductor, wherein each of the computer, the one or more computing devices, the one or more associated search conductors is a distinct device.
28. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by a computer executing a partitioner module of an in-memory database system comprising one or more computing devices hosting an in-memory database, one or more collections of one or more records of the in-memory database from a search conductor of the in-memory database system according to a machine-readable schema file, wherein each of the collections comprises a set of one or more records of the in-memory database, each record having one or more fields; partitioning, by the computer, each collection according to the schema file; compressing, by the computer, the records in the partition according to the schema file; and distributing, by the computer, each of the partitions to one or more associated search conductors to include each of the partitions in each collection corresponding to a partitioner associated with the search conductor, wherein each of the computer, the one or more computing devices, the one or more associated search conductors is a distinct device. 29. The method according to claim 28 , further comprising fragmenting, by the computer, the records in each set of records according to the schema.