Author : Mamta Mittal

Evolution of unstructured and partially-structured data immersed us in the Information Age where vast amounts of data are available from internet sources. This abundant and heterogenous data should be analyzed properly. So, there is vital requirement of techniques which deal with such Big Data and emerged as new era to handle structured and unstructured data effectively and efficiently. Here, indexing techniques plays major role to access and process query at a faster rate. Major focus of this paper is to discuss various indexing techniques such as Database cracking, HAIL, LIAH, etc. as well as what are the challenges data analyst faces when such Big Data is to be analyzed.

Keywords: Big Data, Indexing, Analytics, Hadoop

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.7, No.3 (June-2017)