# Elasticsearch - Design Question?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-design-question/248073>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 9, 2020, 9:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-design-question/248073 "2020-09-09T21:02:40Z")\
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Are the tables of different customers similar in structure or completely different?

As Elasticsearch is not a relational data store and instead document-based, you generally need to restructure your data when moving from a relational database. One way is to completely or at least partially denormalize into documents. Here are a related thread which may provide some insight: [Convert relational schema to elasticsearch mapping](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/convert-relational-schema-to-elasticsearch-mapping/72291)

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