The invention discloses an 
index system and an 
index method for retrieving time sequences of ultra-large-scale data. The 
index system comprises a vertical hierarchical index module and a corresponding time axis index module. The vertical hierarchical index module comprises a plurality of hierarchies of indexes, each hierarchy of indexes comprises a 
hash function and a plurality of data sets, and data in the data sets are mapped into a corresponding next hierarchy of 
data set by the aid of the 
hash function of the corresponding next hierarchy of indexes; the time axis index module is used for creating event lists and time lists. The 
index system and the 
index method have the advantages that original 
big data sets can be ultimately distributed into a plurality of 
small data sets by means of hierarchy -by- hierarchy hash mapping by the aid of the hierarchical index module, operation such as query 
processing, data loading and storage optimization can be independently executed on each 
small data set, accordingly, the vertical hierarchical index module can be combined with the time axis index module, risks of full-table scanning operation in 
time sequence retrieval operation procedures can be prevented, and the 
time sequence retrieval speeds can be greatly increased; the index 
system and the 
index method for retrieving the time sequences of the ultra-large-scale data can be widely applied to the field of 
data processing.