Types of Big Data

Dr. Anil Kumar Dubey

Associate Professor,
Computer Science & Engineering Department,
ABES EC, Ghaziabad
Affiliated to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Uttar
Pradesh, Lucknow
Basic: Big Data
Generally, Data which are very large in size is called Big
Data.

Normally we work on data of size MB (Word Doc,

Excel) or maximum GB(Movies, Codes) but data in Peta
bytes i.e. 10^15 byte size is called Big Data.

Itis stated that almost 90% of today's data has been

generated in the past 3 years.
Types of Big Data
Following are the types of Big Data:
 Structured
 Unstructured
 Semi-structured

According to Merrill Lynch, 80–90% of business data is

either unstructured or semi-structured.
Gartner also estimates that unstructured data constitutes
80% of the whole enterprise data.
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Types of Big Data: Structured
Any data that can be stored, accessed and processed in
the form of fixed format is termed as a ‘structured’ data.

1021 bytes = 1 zettabyte 
or one billion terabytes forms a zettabyte.

Data stored in a relational database management system

is one example of a ‘structured’ data.
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Structured is the data which is in an organized form
(e.g., in rows and columns) and can be easily used by a
computer program.

Relationships exist between entities of data, such as

classes and their objects.

Data stored in databases is an example of structured

data.
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Structured Data Come from…
Structured V/s Semi-structured Data
Structured Data
Structured Data Retrieval
Structured Data Example
An ‘Employee’ table in a database is an example of
Structured Data.

Employee_ID Employee_Name Gender Department Salary_In_lacs

2365  Rajesh Kulkarni  Male  Finance 650000

3398  Pratibha Joshi  Female  Admin  650000

7465  Shushil Roy  Male  Admin  500000

7500  Shubhojit Das  Male  Finance  500000

7699  Priya Sane  Female  Finance  550000

Types of Big Data: Unstructured
Any data with unknown form or the structure is
classified as unstructured data. In addition to the size
being huge, un-structured data poses multiple
challenges in terms of its processing for deriving value
out of it. A typical example of unstructured data is a
heterogeneous data source containing a combination of
simple text files, images, videos etc.
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 Unstructured data refers to the data that lacks any specific form or
structure whatsoever. This makes it very difficult and time-consuming to
process and analyze unstructured data. Email is an example of
unstructured data. Structured and unstructured are two important types of
big data.

 This is the data which does not conform to a data model or is not in a form
which can be used easily by a computer program. About 80—90% data of
an organization is in this format; for example, memos, chat rooms,
PowerPoint presentations, images, videos, letters, researches, white papers,
body of an email, etc.
Unstructured data
Unstructured data Come from…
Store Unstructured data
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Extract information from Unstructured data
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Unstructured Data: Example
The output returned by ‘Google Search’
Types of Big Data: Semi-structured
Semi-structured data can contain both the forms of
data. We can see semi-structured data as a structured in
form but it is actually not defined with e.g. a table
definition in relational DBMS. Example of semi-
structured data is a data represented in an XML file.
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Semi-structured data pertains to the data containing
both the formats mentioned above, that is, structured
and unstructured data.
To be precise, it refers to the data that although has not
been classified under a particular repository (database),
yet contains vital information or tags that segregate
individual elements within the data.
Semi-structured data
Semi-structured data come from…
Manage Semi-structured Data
Store Semi-structured Data
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Extract Information from Semi-structured data
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Semi-structured Data example
Personal data stored in an XML file

<rec><name>Anil Dubey</name><sex>Male</sex><age>33</age></rec>
<rec><name>Rohit Rastogi</name><sex>Male</sex><age>43</age></rec>
<rec><name>Sikha</name><sex>Female</sex><age>31</age></rec>
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