While json excels in storing unstructured data, it is used for structured data as well, for example in the twitter stream API. The fastest way to get data from the twitter stream api into a mysql-type relational database like mariadab is to use LOAD DATA
, but that appears to require a CSV file. Because of the hype around mysqls new capabilities to mix structured and unstructed (json-based) data, it is hard to find good sources in how to import structured data in json-format to mysql/mariadb.