# Elasticsearch how to save user and it's tweets

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-how-to-save-user-and-its-tweets/233177>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 18, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-how-to-save-user-and-its-tweets/233177 "2020-05-18T18:46:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rinku\_Budania](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rinku_budania/32/55074_2.png) [@Rinku\_Budania](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rinku_Budania)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-how-to-save-user-and-its-tweets/233177/1 "2020-05-18T18:46:55Z")

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> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61876631/elasticsearch-how-to-save-user-and-its-tweets>

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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:** [May 18, 2020, 10:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-how-to-save-user-and-its-tweets/233177/2 "2020-05-18T22:59:38Z")

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Welcome! 😃

Are you asking us a question here, or just sharing a link?

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**Author:** ![Rinku\_Budania](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rinku_budania/32/55074_2.png) [@Rinku\_Budania](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rinku_Budania)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-how-to-save-user-and-its-tweets/233177/3 "2020-05-19T11:50:30Z")

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i am asking a question. and my question is  
I have two tables in MySQL. 1st table is users and 2nd table is posts. posts contain a user\_id column. can anyone explain data structure of my index? I am using elasticsearch 7.5 version

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**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:** [May 19, 2020, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-how-to-save-user-and-its-tweets/233177/4 "2020-05-19T12:17:38Z")

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Easiest way is to denormalize and store the user data with every tweet. This causes some duplication of data but gives fast queries and scales well.

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**Author:** ![Rinku\_Budania](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rinku_budania/32/55074_2.png) [@Rinku\_Budania](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rinku_Budania)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-how-to-save-user-and-its-tweets/233177/5 "2020-05-19T12:48:36Z")

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if user change his name then how update user name in tweets

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**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:** [May 19, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-how-to-save-user-and-its-tweets/233177/6 "2020-05-19T12:53:32Z")

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Use update by query. Assuming updates are reasonably infrequent you trade a bit more update work for simpler and faster queries.

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**Author:** ![Rinku\_Budania](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rinku_budania/32/55074_2.png) [@Rinku\_Budania](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rinku_Budania)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 5:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-how-to-save-user-and-its-tweets/233177/7 "2020-05-20T05:00:08Z")

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okay thank you 🙂

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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:** [June 17, 2020, 5:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-how-to-save-user-and-its-tweets/233177/8 "2020-06-17T05:00:15Z")

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