How is indexing done in HDFS? › Category: Hadoop › How is indexing done in HDFS? 0 Vote Up Vote Down Editor">Editor Staff asked 2 years ago How is indexing done in HDFS? 1 Answers 0 Vote Up Vote Down Editor">Editor Staff answered 2 years ago There is a very unique way of indexing in Hadoop. Once the data is stored as per the block size, the HDFS will keep on storing the last part of the data which specifies the location of the next part of the data.