# Elastic Mapping explosion

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-mapping-explosion/162647>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 2, 2019, 12:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-mapping-explosion/162647 "2019-01-02T12:03:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nikesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nikesh/32/86579_2.png) [@Nikesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nikesh)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 6:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-mapping-explosion/162647/10 "2019-01-08T06:51:49Z")

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okay Thanks for the reply.  
An add on to my previous question,  
If there are 2000 fields in my mapping file but the number of documents I am indexing is low (50,000).  
Can with such low data a mapping explosion occur?

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