# Alternatives to mapping types in Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternatives-to-mapping-types-in-elasticsearch/254007>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 2, 2020, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternatives-to-mapping-types-in-elasticsearch/254007 "2020-11-02T10:02:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kanika27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5e9695/32.png) [@Kanika27](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kanika27)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternatives-to-mapping-types-in-elasticsearch/254007/1 "2020-11-02T10:02:01Z")

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I understand that the mapping types are being removed, I want to know is their any other way out to have multiple schema in a single index?

Something like putting different schema in different shards for one single index? If yes how that can be done.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternatives-to-mapping-types-in-elasticsearch/254007/2 "2020-11-02T11:24:49Z")

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There are multiple strategies described in this blog post.

> **[Removal of mapping types in Elasticsearch 6.0](https://www.elastic.co/blog/removal-of-mapping-types-elasticsearch)**
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> Mapping types are going away. Elasticsearch 6.0 supports a single mapping type per index only, and it represents the first step on the way to removing types altogether.

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**Author:** ![Kanika27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5e9695/32.png) [@Kanika27](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kanika27)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternatives-to-mapping-types-in-elasticsearch/254007/3 "2020-11-02T11:33:19Z")

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yes they are defining index per document type or creating custom type i am looking for any other solution if possible

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternatives-to-mapping-types-in-elasticsearch/254007/4 "2020-11-02T12:23:18Z")

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No other solutions than what is described in the blog post.

What kind of data do you have that would require something else?

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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:** [November 30, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternatives-to-mapping-types-in-elasticsearch/254007/5 "2020-11-30T12:23:21Z")

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