With the ever-growing cloud capacity in our society, being able to harness that immense computational power while keeping our data private has become a strong point of interest. This can be achieved with Structured Encryption, which allows a data structure to be encrypted and stored remotely, but still queryable by the client owning
the encryption key. This report is a literature review of the field of Structured Encryption (StE). We analyze the state-of-the-art technologies and their characteristics on the following aspects: security, efficiency, functionality and usability, and discuss their capabilities and limitations. We then compare StE schemes with other promising technologies in the area of computation on encrypted data: Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Oblivious RAM, Secure Multiparty Computation and Trusted Execution Environments.