# Batch Indexing
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/batch-indexing/3005
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 9, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/batch-indexing/3005 "2010-06-09T21:30:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Samuel\_Doyle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Samuel_Doyle)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/batch-indexing/3005/1 "2010-06-09T21:30:48Z")
What is the best approach for performing an initial bulk indexing with
Elastic Search?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2010, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/batch-indexing/3005/2 "2010-06-10T10:15:00Z")
The best thing is to fork several threads / clients and do the indexing. If
you use the Java API, then its completely async.
-shay.banon
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:30 AM, sd [samueldoyle@gmail.com](mailto:samueldoyle@gmail.com) wrote:
> What is the best approach for performing an initial bulk indexing with
> Elastic Search?
>
> Thanks
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### Author:  [@Samuel\_Doyle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Samuel_Doyle)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2010, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/batch-indexing/3005/3 "2010-06-10T10:23:31Z")
Great, that is what I will be doing (using API).
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Shay Banon [shay.banon@elasticsearch.com](mailto:shay.banon@elasticsearch.com)wrote:
> The best thing is to fork several threads / clients and do the indexing. If
> you use the Java API, then its completely async.
>
> -shay.banon
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:30 AM, sd [samueldoyle@gmail.com](mailto:samueldoyle@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > What is the best approach for performing an initial bulk indexing with
> > Elastic Search?
> >
> > Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/batch-indexing/3005/4 "2017-07-06T04:23:26Z")