Why Unstructured Data is a Good Fit for Java

As Java developers of the legacy application you have worked on, most of you must have spent a large part of the application development mastering relational databases, building schemas, and perfecting SQL queries. During those days, the data was limited and was easily mapped to the strict schema structures. But with the changing era, where data is valued as gold, it is growing exponentially and getting more unstructured. Unstructured data refers to information that does not follow a predefined pattern or is not organised in a strict pattern. As said above, the unstructured data mostly has data in varied formats like multimedia data, CSVs, and many more. Storage of these in relational databases has been difficult because of the diverse formats. Therefore, we store them as JSONs, XMLs, etc. Learn more about unstructured data. Why should you care as a Java developer? The enterprise applications built today have more unstructured data like texts for customer reviews, product images, and s