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Data & Analytics · Foundational

Structured Data

Data organized into a fixed schema of rows and columns, such as relational tables or spreadsheets.

Definition

Structured data is easy to query with SQL and to validate. It is estimated to be a minority of enterprise data by volume.

Example

A table of transactions with fixed columns.

Exam tip

Tables = structured; JSON, XML and logs = semi-structured; images, audio and free text = unstructured.

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