# Discovery and Federation services **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 17, 2017, 8:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discovery-and-federation-services/82546 "2017-04-17T08:15:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![satishpp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@satishpp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/satishpp)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 8:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discovery-and-federation-services/82546/1 "2017-04-17T08:15:46Z")
Hi, At present, we have a third party Federation services which does online search with various e-resources subscribed by Libraries thro' the platform. It does not store any index or data with it. It is a live search via HTTP/XML/HTTPS protocols. I would like to know whether Elastic Search does something like this? ---
**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:** [April 17, 2017, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discovery-and-federation-services/82546/2 "2017-04-17T08:16:45Z")
Similar, yes! ---
**Author:** ![satishpp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@satishpp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/satishpp)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discovery-and-federation-services/82546/3 "2017-04-17T08:17:26Z")
Can I see something via a demo or a link? ---
**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:** [April 17, 2017, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discovery-and-federation-services/82546/4 "2017-04-17T08:17:58Z")
What do you want to see exactly? ---
**Author:** ![satishpp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@satishpp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/satishpp)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discovery-and-federation-services/82546/5 "2017-04-17T08:22:12Z")
Hello Mark, I would like to see how Elastic Search will help us to search thro' E-resources (Journals / Books / Catalog / Repository) at the same time. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2017, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discovery-and-federation-services/82546/6 "2017-04-17T08:31:41Z")
[https://www.elastic.co/use-cases/guardian](https://www.elastic.co/use-cases/guardian) is one example. ---
**Author:** ![satishpp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@satishpp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/satishpp)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 8:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discovery-and-federation-services/82546/7 "2017-04-17T08:39:41Z")
Hello Mark, Can you pls open this URL and do search? .... Note that it does not store any data in the back end database... It does search on fly with live content coming from native websites... [https://goo.gl/gFuuYa](https://goo.gl/gFuuYa) ---
**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:** [April 17, 2017, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discovery-and-federation-services/82546/8 "2017-04-17T08:40:27Z")
What would be the purpose of that? ---
**Author:** ![satishpp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@satishpp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/satishpp)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discovery-and-federation-services/82546/9 "2017-04-17T08:42:40Z")
At present, we have licensed this Federation services from a vendor and now we want to move on open source services which can help us with our requirements ---
**Author:** ![satishpp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@satishpp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/satishpp)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discovery-and-federation-services/82546/10 "2017-04-18T07:11:46Z")
No update on this? ---
**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:** [April 18, 2017, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discovery-and-federation-services/82546/11 "2017-04-18T07:22:50Z")
You can use Elasticsearch to create a search service like the one linked to, but you will need to index the data into Elasticsearch. ---
**Author:** ![satishpp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@satishpp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/satishpp)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discovery-and-federation-services/82546/12 "2017-04-18T09:04:08Z")
Thanks... So Index is must for Elastic Search to work... ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discovery-and-federation-services/82546/13 "2017-05-16T09:14:46Z")
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