# Can we store audio/video data
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-store-audio-video-data/36625
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 8, 2015, 11:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-store-audio-video-data/36625 "2015-12-08T11:53:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Amit2015](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amit2015)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2015, 11:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-store-audio-video-data/36625/1 "2015-12-08T11:53:53Z")
Hi,
In Hadoop we can store audio, video as well as images. Can we store these in ES???
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-store-audio-video-data/36625/2 "2015-12-08T13:53:55Z")
To some degrees yes but I would not do that.
Why do you want to do this?
I'd keep blobs in Hadoop or wherever...
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### Author:  [@Amit2015](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amit2015)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2015, 5:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-store-audio-video-data/36625/3 "2015-12-09T05:49:44Z")
In Hadoop we can store any kind of data and we can integrated ES with Hadoop. So want to know how it would work???
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2015, 6:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-store-audio-video-data/36625/4 "2015-12-09T06:29:21Z")
I'd ask this question in [https://discuss.elastic.co/c/elasticsearch-and-hadoop](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/elasticsearch-and-hadoop)
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2015, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-store-audio-video-data/36625/5 "2015-12-09T06:36:51Z")
Elasticsearch required all documents that are indexed to be in JSON format. It is possible to add binary data to a JSON document, but this means that the binary content will need to be encoded, e.g. using a base64 encoding, which is not very efficient. As David points out it is therefore common to store binary content outside Elasticsearch.
Our [ES-Hadoop Connector](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/hadoop/current/index.html) makes it possible to move data between Elasticsearch and Hadoop.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-store-audio-video-data/36625/6 "2017-07-05T23:32:26Z")