Structured vs Semi-structured vs Unstructured data

Aditya
2 min readNov 8, 2021

What is data → Data is a representation of some aspect of the real world. We can classify data as structured or unstructured or semi-structured based on how it is organized.

Customers mostly select structured or un structured or semi structured not based on their data, but on the applications usecases that utilize that data.

Structured data → Data is represented as rows and columns(also called as relational data) . Data adheres to a predefined data model and if incoming data fails to meet those definitions, it fails to…

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Aditya

Principal data engineer → Distributed Threat hunting security platform | aws certified solutions architect | gssp-java | Chicago-IL