While technologies such as Hadoop, Cassandra, and Accumulo can facilitate the processing of huge data volumes, D4M is a uniform mathematical framework for processing structured/semi-structured/non-structured multidimensional data.

The data model follows the pattern of representing any multidimensional data as a matrix
of 0 and 1, which can be seen as follows:

The following are the advantages of representing data in this model:

1. Easy visualization of data storage and retrieval from the database.
2. Competent performance can be achieved in the NoSQL database with compact storage of triplets (key, value) as 1.