# Elasticsearch 7 Slower Indexing than 6

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-slower-indexing-than-6/221794>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 3, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-slower-indexing-than-6/221794 "2020-03-03T01:23:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brent\_Farrell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brent_farrell/32/62466_2.png) [@Brent\_Farrell](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brent_Farrell)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-slower-indexing-than-6/221794/1 "2020-03-03T01:23:30Z")

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We have been testing Elasticsearch 7.4.0 and comparing it to our previous deployment of Elasticsearch 6.4.3. I have tried running both versions on a Mac and the indexing workload takes about 30% longer with Elasticsearch 7.4. Both are using identical index settings with 1 shard and no replicas with the exception of one index that has 4 shards. I have 10 indexes and each is getting about 1 million documents inserted into it. I am using Java 11. I have seen some threads on the forum where Elasticsearch 7 is slower with searching because of the idle refresh change but I don't think that is the issue since this is only an index workload.

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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:** [March 31, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-slower-indexing-than-6/221794/2 "2020-03-31T01:23:31Z")

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