# Alternate for sub aggregation in elastic search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternate-for-sub-aggregation-in-elastic-search/306423>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 6, 2022, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternate-for-sub-aggregation-in-elastic-search/306423 "2022-06-06T06:11:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![khasim\_vali\_dudekula](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/khasim_vali_dudekula/32/106558_2.png) [@khasim\_vali\_dudekula](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/khasim_vali_dudekula)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2022, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternate-for-sub-aggregation-in-elastic-search/306423/1 "2022-06-06T06:11:55Z")

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Hi I am new to Elasticsearch, and I'm writing a query using sub aggregations. I'm not sure whether it is okay in terms of performance or any other alternatives exist. please guide me.

the query looks like this

```auto
{
  "size": 0, 
  "aggs": {
    "status": {
      "terms": {
        "field": "status"
      },
      "aggs": {
        "date_buckets": {
          "date_range": {
            "field": "@timestamp",
            "ranges": [
              {
                  "key": "Today",
                  "from": "2022-04-28T05:30:00.000+0530",
                  "to": "2022-04-29T05:30:00.000+0530"
                },
                {
                  "key": "Past",
                  "from": "2020-04-27T05:30:00.000+0530",
                  "to": "2022-04-28T05:30:00.000+0530"
                },
                {
                  "key": "Future",
                  "from": "2022-05-28T05:30:00.000+0530",
                  "to": "2023-04-29T05:30:00.000+0530"
                }
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

```

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternate-for-sub-aggregation-in-elastic-search/306423/2 "2022-06-08T23:58:21Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

That looks ok, are you having issues with it?

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**Author:** ![khasim\_vali\_dudekula](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/khasim_vali_dudekula/32/106558_2.png) [@khasim\_vali\_dudekula](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/khasim_vali_dudekula)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternate-for-sub-aggregation-in-elastic-search/306423/3 "2022-06-09T08:01:16Z")

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Hi Warkolm,

The query is working for me, but I feel it is taking some time for huge data sets, I was just exploring if there is any alternatives exist for this.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 10:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternate-for-sub-aggregation-in-elastic-search/306423/4 "2022-06-09T22:33:47Z")

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How big are we talking? How long?

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**Author:** ![khasim\_vali\_dudekula](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/khasim_vali_dudekula/32/106558_2.png) [@khasim\_vali\_dudekula](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/khasim_vali_dudekula)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 5:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternate-for-sub-aggregation-in-elastic-search/306423/5 "2022-06-14T05:13:44Z")

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I got around 450M records and it is taking around 1m to fetch the results

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2022, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternate-for-sub-aggregation-in-elastic-search/306423/6 "2022-07-12T05:14:22Z")

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