# Can we have views in Elastic Search?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-views-in-elastic-search/135392>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 11, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-views-in-elastic-search/135392 "2018-06-11T14:44:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Suryatejreddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Suryatejreddy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Suryatejreddy)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-views-in-elastic-search/135392/1 "2018-06-11T14:44:48Z")

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How can we implement views in Elastic Search? like SQL views we have in RDBMS.

Is there any query mechanism to implement this?

Thanks,  
Surya

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 5:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-views-in-elastic-search/135392/2 "2018-06-12T05:56:28Z")

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The closest thing I can think about is [filtered aliases](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/indices-aliases.html#filtered). What is the problem you are trying to solve?

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**Author:** ![Suryatejreddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Suryatejreddy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Suryatejreddy)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-views-in-elastic-search/135392/3 "2018-06-12T16:18:52Z")

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Thanks for the response. aliases might help me. Also is there a way to rename our fields before persisting data into elastic? Like in DB I have fname but when I store data in elastic it should be firstname. and I am not using POJOs for my fields.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-views-in-elastic-search/135392/4 "2018-06-12T16:20:10Z")

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You can process your data using either Logstash or an ingest pipeline. See [this blog post](https://www.elastic.co/blog/should-i-use-logstash-or-elasticsearch-ingest-nodes) for a comparison.

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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 10, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-views-in-elastic-search/135392/5 "2018-07-10T16:20:14Z")

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