# Ensuring results from multiple indexes
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ensuring-results-from-multiple-indexes/4203
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 8, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ensuring-results-from-multiple-indexes/4203 "2011-04-08T13:12:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Livsey\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Richard_Livsey_2)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ensuring-results-from-multiple-indexes/4203/1 "2011-04-08T13:12:43Z")
I have a number of indexes and want to search across all of them but ensure I get results from all the indexes. Is this possible?
So say I have two indexes, "clients" and "colleagues" and I do a search across both of them, is there a way of specifying that I want to get a maximum of 5 results from each index, resulting in a total of up to 10 results returned?
Basically I'm building a spotlight alike quick search box which matches as the user types.
Currently it's a bit weird because if I ask for a maximum of 10 results, all of them could come from the same type when instead I want to display at least one match (if there is one) for each type.
I can get round this by searching each type individually, but obviously it would be a lot faster to be able to do it in one query.
Cheers.
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### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ensuring-results-from-multiple-indexes/4203/2 "2011-04-08T18:25:56Z")
Heya,
No, there isn't an option to specify that, so you will need to execute the search several times. It can be enabled as a feature for search, but, I think a proper way to solve it is to have bulk search support which will allow for other usecases.
-shay.banon
On Friday, April 8, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Richard Livsey wrote:
> I have a number of indexes and want to search across all of them but ensure I get results from all the indexes. Is this possible?
>
> So say I have two indexes, "clients" and "colleagues" and I do a search across both of them, is there a way of specifying that I want to get a maximum of 5 results from each index, resulting in a total of up to 10 results returned?
>
> Basically I'm building a spotlight alike quick search box which matches as the user types.
> Currently it's a bit weird because if I ask for a maximum of 10 results, all of them could come from the same type when instead I want to display at least one match (if there is one) for each type.
>
> I can get round this by searching each type individually, but obviously it would be a lot faster to be able to do it in one query.
>
> Cheers.
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Livsey\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Richard_Livsey_2)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ensuring-results-from-multiple-indexes/4203/3 "2011-04-08T19:16:02Z")
No problem, I've got it working by issuing separate queries and combining the results and it's pretty quick for now.
Cheers.
On Friday, 8 April 2011 at 19:25, Shay Banon wrote:
> Heya,
>
> No, there isn't an option to specify that, so you will need to execute the search several times. It can be enabled as a feature for search, but, I think a proper way to solve it is to have bulk search support which will allow for other usecases.
>
> -shay.banon
> On Friday, April 8, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Richard Livsey wrote:
>
> > I have a number of indexes and want to search across all of them but ensure I get results from all the indexes. Is this possible?
> >
> > So say I have two indexes, "clients" and "colleagues" and I do a search across both of them, is there a way of specifying that I want to get a maximum of 5 results from each index, resulting in a total of up to 10 results returned?
> >
> > Basically I'm building a spotlight alike quick search box which matches as the user types.
> > Currently it's a bit weird because if I ask for a maximum of 10 results, all of them could come from the same type when instead I want to display at least one match (if there is one) for each type.
> >
> > I can get round this by searching each type individually, but obviously it would be a lot faster to be able to do it in one query.
> >
> > Cheers.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ensuring-results-from-multiple-indexes/4203/4 "2017-07-06T04:08:41Z")