In vector data, the additional data contains attributes of the feature.

Music contains unique attributes such as artist, album, genre, era, and song title used to organize the songs.

A fully attributed data model contains detailed attributes for each entity.

Empty nodes: Nodes that contain attributes and do not perform any actions.

A fully attributed data model contains detailed attributes (descriptions) for every entity within it.

AS 1100 standard drawings contain attributes that are universal around Australia.

Value Object: An object that contains attributes but has no conceptual identity.

Tabu lists containing attributes (rather than whole solutions) can be more effective for some domains, although they raise a new problem.

The following categories are generalizations; many "haunts" contain attributes from more than one type.

The D&B database also contains other attributes such as industry types, market sector, etc.