# ElasticSearch skip results Perfomance
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-skip-results-perfomance/10368
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 16, 2013, 6:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-skip-results-perfomance/10368 "2013-01-16T06:56:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Alexis\_Okuwa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexis_Okuwa)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2013, 6:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-skip-results-perfomance/10368/1 "2013-01-16T06:56:08Z")
I am thinking about making a type of map reduce project using elastic
search as a first level of filtering, like most people know when someone
does map reduce do it across a much larger set of data then they need.
Because I want it to "scale" I dont want to limit the collecting of the
data from elasticsearch to go to one node and then be split up to be sent
to the other nodes. I am thinking about using some sort of skip simular to
how mysql does Limit 5, 10 What I am aware of is that when a skip takes
place it needs to first pull the first x number of records and then run for
the next set meaning that I am going to end up pulling a lot of unneeded
records, anyway around this in elasticsearch?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-skip-results-perfomance/10368/2 "2017-07-06T02:56:12Z")