# Count nested elements
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-nested-elements/17062
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 17, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-nested-elements/17062 "2014-04-17T15:35:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Loic\_Wenkin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Loic_Wenkin)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-nested-elements/17062/1 "2014-04-17T15:35:57Z")
Hello everybody,
I am using ElasticSearch in order to switch our main storage system from a
RDBMS system to a NoSQL system. For a particular functionality, I need to
use some nested elements. I know how to query them but I would like to know
if it is possible to count how many nested elements match with the query I
write. Since nested elements indexed as separated elements, I may think it
is doable but I don't know how to do it. Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks for your replies.
Regards,
Loïc
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-nested-elements/17062/2 "2017-07-06T01:35:12Z")