The infrastructure that is attached to structured repetitive data managed under a DBMS is
seen in Fig. 1.2.5.

Fig. 1.2.5 A standard DBMS.

Repetitive Big Data

The other type of repetitive data is repetitive data found in big data. Fig. 1.2.6 depicts the
repetitive data found in big data.

Fig. 1.2.6 Repetitive big data.

At first glance, there are just a lot of repetitive records seen in Fig. 1.2.6. But upon closer
examination, it is seen that all of those repetitive big data records are packed away into a
string of data and that string of data is stored inside a block of data, as seen in Fig. 1.2.7.

Fig. 1.2.7 A block of data.

The structured infrastructure seen in Fig. 1.2.7 is typical of an infrastructure managed
under one of several DBMS such as Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2.

Chapter 1.2: The Data Infrastructure