# Big binary fields/files storage in ElasticSearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/big-binary-fields-files-storage-in-elasticsearch/28392>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 31, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/big-binary-fields-files-storage-in-elasticsearch/28392 "2015-08-31T22:43:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![linlma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ec9cab/32.png) [@linlma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/linlma)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/big-binary-fields-files-storage-in-elasticsearch/28392/1 "2015-08-31T22:43:18Z")

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Hello ElasticSearch experts,

Wondering if we could store big binary fields/files into ElasticSearch? For big binary file, I mean video, PDF, image files, etc. which is big (from a few M bytes to hundreds of M bytes), and there is no need to index/scan content for such files. The purpose of asking this question is because, I have a document which represent a student course, for small fields, like student name, teach name, etc. I can easily index each field and user may search against each field. There are also big fields for a course instance, like course slides, video/images, which I want to see if I can store together into one ElasticSearch cluster for better management.

Any advice is appreciated.

thanks in advance,  
Lin

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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:** [August 31, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/big-binary-fields-files-storage-in-elasticsearch/28392/2 "2015-08-31T23:57:54Z")

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Yes, you can using the attachments plugins - [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments).

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**Author:** ![linlma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ec9cab/32.png) [@linlma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/linlma)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/big-binary-fields-files-storage-in-elasticsearch/28392/3 "2015-09-01T00:16:39Z")

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@warkolm, thanks for answering my question.

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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 5, 2017, 11:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/big-binary-fields-files-storage-in-elasticsearch/28392/4 "2017-07-05T23:53:01Z")

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