Answer / Gaurav Kumar Saxena

HDFS does not support traditional database-style indexing. Instead, it relies on the hierarchical file structure and NameNode for efficient data retrieval. The NameNode maintains a directory of all files in the HDFS cluster and their locations on DataNodes.

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