Explain primitive and non-primitive data structure

Primitive data structure

Primitive data structures are the fundamental data structures.
It can be operated directly on the data and machine instructions.
It is also know as basic data structure.
Primitive data structures are defined by the programming languages, or we can say that it is built-in.
Some of the Primitive data types are integer, real, character, floating point number, and pointer.
Basically, ‘data-type’ , ‘data structure’ are often used interchangeably.

Non-primitive data structures are the data structures that are created using the primitive data structures.
It is little bit complicated as it is derived from primitive data structures.
Some of Non-primitive data structures are linked lists, stacks, trees, and graphs.
Also we can say that is a grouping of same or different data items.

If the elements are stored in a linear or sequential order of a data structure, then it is known as a linear data structure.
For Examples arrays, linked lists, stacks, and queues are the linear data structures.
In memory, Linear data structures can be represented in two different ways.
In the first way, the linear relationship between the elements is because of sequentially memory locations where items are stored. For example an array take memory in sequential fashion.
And in the second way, elements have a linear relationship because of the link. For example node of the linked list are linked together because its node are arrange in memory in non-sequential fashion.