Introduction
Big data comprises everything, from money transactions to posts on social media. To take advantage of all this data, we need to integrate the information for analysis and data management. However, this isn’t as simple as it sounds. There are two main types of data that make up big data - structured and unstructured.
Structured Data
Structured data refers to the data present in a defined format and has a defined length, for example, dates, numbers, names, addresses, etc. Structured data accounts for almost 20% of the data present today. This is the data that businesses mainly deal with. It is generally stored in a database.