# Elasticsearch how to support transaction involving multiple documents

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-how-to-support-transaction-involving-multiple-documents/137725>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 28, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-how-to-support-transaction-involving-multiple-documents/137725 "2018-06-28T03:20:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![fdb58704a2c5cc6a3286](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@fdb58704a2c5cc6a3286](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fdb58704a2c5cc6a3286)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-how-to-support-transaction-involving-multiple-documents/137725/1 "2018-06-28T03:20:19Z")

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i use elasticsearch,and Denormalizing Data,like

```
PUT /my_index/user/1
{
"name": "John Smith",
"email": "john@smith.com",
"dob": "1970/10/24"
}

PUT /my_index/blogpost/2
{
"title": "Relationships",
"body": "It's complicated...",
"user": {
"id": 1,
"name": "John Smith"
}

```

}  
but the problem is that Elasticsearch does not support ACID transactions. Changes to individual documents are ACIDic, but not changes involving multiple documents.if i want to change /my\_index/user/1 and /my\_index/blogpost/2 user name at one transaction,if one error it will rollback, how to do that?

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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:** [June 28, 2018, 4:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-how-to-support-transaction-involving-multiple-documents/137725/2 "2018-06-28T04:28:20Z")

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You'd need to handle that in your application code.

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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:** [July 26, 2018, 4:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-how-to-support-transaction-involving-multiple-documents/137725/3 "2018-07-26T04:28:23Z")

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