Structured, Semi structured, Unstructured Data

Structured, Semi structured, Unstructured Data

Data Structures

  • Structured
  • Semi structured
  • Unstructured

Structured Data

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  • Easy to search and organized
  • Consistent model, rows and columns
  • Defined types
  • Relational database
  • Created and queried using SQL
  • Can be grouped

Semi structured Data

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  • Relatively easy to search and organized
  • Consistent model, less rigid implementation and different observations have different size
  • Different types
  • No-SQL database such as XML, JSON, YAML formats
  • Can be grouped but need more work

Unstructured Data

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  • Difficult to search and organized
  • Don't follow a model
  • Stord in data lake and may appear in data warehouse or database
  • such as image, video, audio and text
  • Can be extremely valuable but because it's difficult to search and organized, this value can not be extracted easily

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