# ElasticSearch is NoSQL?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-nosql/51576>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 1, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-nosql/51576 "2016-06-01T15:08:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Amit2015](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Amit2015](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amit2015)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-nosql/51576/1 "2016-06-01T15:08:44Z")

</div>

Hi all,

Some people consider elasticsearch as NoSQL database. I am confused, Elasticsearch is NoSQL database?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 2, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-nosql/51576/2 "2016-06-02T01:10:58Z")

</div>

It's a NoSQL datastore, yes.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Amit2015](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Amit2015](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amit2015)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-nosql/51576/3 "2016-06-02T19:37:06Z")

</div>

Thanks Mark!

Instead of Hadoop or Spark can we store Big Data into ElasticSearch Cluster? Its very easy and complete solution from indexed data to visualization. Why we need hadoop or spark if we have ELK stack.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jprante](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jprante/32/44941_2.png) [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-nosql/51576/4 "2016-06-02T20:42:36Z")

</div>

I suggest asking Hadoop or Spark community why they need Hadoop or Spark.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Detritus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Detritus1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Detritus1)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-nosql/51576/5 "2016-06-02T20:52:11Z")

</div>

The real question is, are they web scale, like MongoDB?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 3, 2016, 12:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-nosql/51576/6 "2016-06-03T00:30:46Z")

</div>

Generally we find people store data in ES for realtime analytics. Once that is done and they want to archive that data they put it into something like Hadoop.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-nosql/51576/7 "2017-07-05T22:46:44Z")

</div>