# App search parent child relationships
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-parent-child-relationships/214618
**Category:** Elastic Search
**Tags:** elastic-app-search
**Created:** [January 10, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-parent-child-relationships/214618 "2020-01-10T15:11:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@arjunyel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arjunyel)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-parent-child-relationships/214618/1 "2020-01-10T15:11:49Z")
Hello, we are evaluating app search vs regular elasticsearch, does app search support parent/child relationships? I can't find any mention of it in the docs. Thank you!
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### Author:  [@JasonStoltz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JasonStoltz)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-parent-child-relationships/214618/2 "2020-01-13T10:39:22Z")
Hey @arjunyel,
App Search does not support parent/child relationships.
Our typical recommendation in these cases is to include the child data within the parent.
```auto
{
"name": "Some parent document",
"child.property1": "Some child document property",
"child.property2": "Some other child document property",
}
```
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### Author:  [@JasonStoltz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JasonStoltz)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-parent-child-relationships/214618/3 "2020-01-13T10:46:53Z")
The above works well for a one-to-one relationship. One-to-many relationships can be a bit trickier.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2020, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-parent-child-relationships/214618/4 "2020-02-10T10:46:53Z")
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