# Data virtualization and Elastic

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-virtualization-and-elastic/183211>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 29, 2019, 3:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-virtualization-and-elastic/183211 "2019-05-29T03:45:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![davelo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3d9bf3/32.png) [@davelo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davelo)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 3:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-virtualization-and-elastic/183211/1 "2019-05-29T03:45:42Z")

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Does anyone have any thoughts on data virtualization and how it applies to Elastic?

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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:** [May 29, 2019, 3:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-virtualization-and-elastic/183211/2 "2019-05-29T03:54:52Z")

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Welcome 🙂  
What is data virtualisation?

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**Author:** ![barriersbill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@barriersbill](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/barriersbill)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 5:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-virtualization-and-elastic/183211/3 "2019-06-09T05:17:36Z")

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Data virtualization is good if you don't want to copy data around... not sure how that works with Elastic search though... u can read about data virtualization here :

> **[Data virtualization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_virtualization)**
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> Data virtualization is any approach to data management that allows an application to retrieve and manipulate data without requiring technical details about the data, such as how it is formatted at source, or where it is physically located, and can provide a single customer view (or single view of any other entity) of the overall data.
> Unlike the traditional extract, transform, load ("ETL") process, the data remains in place, and real-time access is given to the source system for the data. This r...

  
I think some companies like Presto are doing it but not sure they support Elastic...I heard Gemini Data does you can check out their website it could point you in the right way: [https://www.geminidata.com/](https://www.geminidata.com/)

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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 7, 2019, 5:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-virtualization-and-elastic/183211/4 "2019-07-07T05:17:38Z")

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