Structured Data
Yet there is another form of data that is highly structured like relational databases. For more than two decades, companies have invested in databases and products such as SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Informix, and Sybase. Payroll, personnel, finance, and all sorts of business data is stored in a highly structured format. A huge number of skill sets are developed around these products, and billions of lines of code are written to build applications around these products as well. Or how about directories and object-oriented databases, which represent yet another type and category of data structure?
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It would be ideal to have a universal type of data storage that could store any type of unstructured, semi-structured, and structured ...
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