Structured data

All data that we can store, consult and process in the form of a fixed layout, we refer to as 'structured' data. Over time, computer scientists have had many successes in developing techniques for working with such data (where the layout is known in advance). They succeeded in making this profitable for the client. Nowadays, Data management faced with problems arising from the volume of such data sets. The high rate of growth sometimes leads to the size of several Zettabytes.