BIG DATA

1. Big Data is the amount of data that cannot fit into the memory of a single computer system. With each passing day, Big data is growing bigger, is more difficult to make sense of, is being generated at a much faster rate and this trend is only going to intensify in our data-driven digital world.

2. Structured Data is used to refer to the data which is already stored in databases, in an ordered manner. It accounts for about 20% of the total existing data and is used the most in programming and computer-related activities.

3. STRUCTURED DATA

4. SEMI-STRUCTURED DATA

5. While structured data resides in the traditional row-column databases, unstructured data is the opposite- they have no clear format in storage. The rest of the data created, about 80% of the total account for unstructured big data. Most of the data a person encounters belong to this category- and until recently, there was not much to do to it except storing it or analyzing it manually.

6. UNSTRUCTURED DATA

7. The line between unstructured data and semi-structured data has always been unclear since most of the semi-structured data appear to be unstructured at a glance. Information that is not in the traditional database format as structured data, but contains some organizational properties which make it easier to process, are included in semi-structured data.