A data structure is a specialized format for organizing, processing, retrieving and storing data so that it can be used efficiently. There are several basic and advanced types of data structures, all designed to arrange data to suit a specific purpose. It is a set of algorithms that we can use in any programming language to structure the data in the memory. To structure the data in memory, ‘n’ number of algorithms were proposed and all these algorithms are known as abstract data types. These abstract data types are the set of rules. There are two types of data structure: primitive data structure and non primitive data structure. It can also be classified into static and dynamic data structure. Static data structure is a type of data structure where the size is allocated at the compile time and in dynamic data structure the size is allocated at the run time. The data structure provides reusability so that multiple client programs can use the data structure. Efficiency, reusability and abstraction are the advantages of data structure.

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