# Does ElasticSearch support GRPC or will support in near future?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-support-grpc-or-will-support-in-near-future/246916>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 31, 2020, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-support-grpc-or-will-support-in-near-future/246916 "2020-08-31T07:38:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![isuhendro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/isuhendro/32/74808_2.png) [@isuhendro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/isuhendro)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-support-grpc-or-will-support-in-near-future/246916/1 "2020-08-31T07:38:38Z")

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[https://medium.com/@EmperorRXF/evaluating-performance-of-rest-vs-grpc-1b8bdf0b22da#:~:text=gRPC%20is%20roughly%207%20times,of%20HTTP%2F2%20by%20gRPC](https://medium.com/@EmperorRXF/evaluating-performance-of-rest-vs-grpc-1b8bdf0b22da#:~:text=gRPC%20is%20roughly%207%20times,of%20HTTP%2F2%20by%20gRPC).

The article above mentioned: gRPC is roughly 7 times faster than REST when receiving data & roughly 10 times faster than REST when sending data for this specific payload. This is mainly due to the tight packing of the Protocol Buffers and the use of HTTP/2 by gRPC.

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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:** [August 31, 2020, 7:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-support-grpc-or-will-support-in-near-future/246916/2 "2020-08-31T07:40:17Z")

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Not at this stage, please see [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/10981](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/10981).

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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:** [September 28, 2020, 7:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-support-grpc-or-will-support-in-near-future/246916/3 "2020-09-28T07:40:21Z")

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