About Qlik Big Data Index
With Qlik Big Data Index you can achieve the full Qlik Sense associative experience with your big data, and explore it in context with your in-memory data. The index is optimized for speed and associative queries, and can be distributed across a cluster to provide scalability.
For more details, see: Qlik Big Data Index
On the cloud platform
Deploy an index cluster
Qlik Big Data Index is deployed in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using Kubernetes. You can deploy it in a number of environments:
- Amazon EKS (Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes)
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Microsoft Azure
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Google Cloud Platform
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Non-managed Kubernetes environments
Index the data
The index is the main element of Qlik Big Data Index. Before you can index the data, you need to prepare the data using a schema, and connect to the data with a specific connector.
On the Qlik Sense system
Use the indexed data in an app
When you have created the index with Qlik Big Data Index, you can use it in your app. You can connect to the data model and access the data in different ways.
- Extract the data using a load script with QSL (Qlik Selection Language).
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Connect to the data with the QABDI Selector in Qlik Sense.