# Introduction

Although XINA is very flexible and can be configured to meet almost any data organization requirements, we have defined standard organization principles for common use cases with pre-built front end tooling. By adhering to these standards projects can quickly leverage built-in XINA front end tools and data processing pipelines, as well as first class API actions for interacting with data in complex ways. We call this collection of standards **structured data standards**, or **structs**.

These are not hard limitations of the overall XINA system, but serve as our recommended entry point into using XINA based on past experience, performance benchmarks, and cost/benefit analysis.