# Index HDFS data **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 4, 2015, 5:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-hdfs-data/28651 "2015-09-04T05:55:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![logic4fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@logic4fun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/logic4fun)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 5:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-hdfs-data/28651/1 "2015-09-04T05:55:53Z")
Sorry if this is a gross repeat of the question but I am trying to get my answers straight. I have CSV files coming into hadoop/hdfs. I would like to create an index for this data (incremental index) One option is Create External table on folder and use Hive Plugin Another is PIG. Is there an way to directly index without using Hive or Pig ? If so do i have to convert data to JSON ? Thanks Logic4fun ---
**Author:** ![Joshua\_Rich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joshua_rich/32/44953_2.png) [@Joshua\_Rich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joshua_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 6:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-hdfs-data/28651/2 "2015-09-04T06:14:43Z")
Have you tried the [ES-Hadoop connector](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/hadoop)? It supports reading data in HDFS into Elasticsearch. ---
**Author:** ![logic4fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@logic4fun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/logic4fun)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-hdfs-data/28651/3 "2015-09-04T16:08:45Z")
I did not. Let me download and look into it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-hdfs-data/28651/4 "2017-07-05T23:52:03Z")