Types of data

Question 1

What is structured data?

Answer 1

Structured data – can be defined as data that is appropriate to be entered into a relational database in a row and column format; consequently, this data can be analysed and queries can be used to extract useful information.

Question 2

What is unstructured data?

Answer 2

• can be defined as data that is difficult to organise and is not appropriate to store in a database in row and column format

Question 3

What is distributed data?

Answer 3

When data is too big to be processed on a single machine, the processing is distributed across several machines; this is termed distributed processing.