# How much Big json elasticsearch can store? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 25, 2015, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-much-big-json-elasticsearch-can-store/22892 "2015-03-25T13:21:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Piyush\_Mishra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/piyush_mishra/32/809_2.png) [@Piyush\_Mishra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Piyush_Mishra)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-much-big-json-elasticsearch-can-store/22892/1 "2015-03-25T13:21:39Z")
Hi all, I have a complex object with lot of data. So i need to know how big a single document elasticsearch can store? Thanks in advance Piyush Mishra -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/4ecf4a60-7225-41ee-ad38-a4798fe75aa4%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/4ecf4a60-7225-41ee-ad38-a4798fe75aa4%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-much-big-json-elasticsearch-can-store/22892/2 "2015-03-25T13:32:30Z")
My documents range from a couple of kilbytes to tens of megabytes and most things work fine. Beware the plain highlighter on long string fields but otherwise you are probably ok. Its certainly less efficient to store huge documents because when you want to return portions of them (other than their id) the whole document has to be deserialized. Unless you use stored fields which most folks don't do so you'd be less charted territory. Nik On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Piyush Mishra [piyushmishra889@gmail.com](mailto:piyushmishra889@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a complex object with lot of data. So i need to know how big a > single document elasticsearch can store? > > Thanks in advance > Piyush Mishra > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/4ecf4a60-7225-41ee-ad38-a4798fe75aa4%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/4ecf4a60-7225-41ee-ad38-a4798fe75aa4%40googlegroups.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/4ecf4a60-7225-41ee-ad38-a4798fe75aa4%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/4ecf4a60-7225-41ee-ad38-a4798fe75aa4%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPmjWd2do%3D1wA2yoQbKGJEAAAucKgrP5XQ%3D1y9qCg7%2BfUMx1wg%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPmjWd2do%3D1wA2yoQbKGJEAAAucKgrP5XQ%3D1y9qCg7%2BfUMx1wg%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-much-big-json-elasticsearch-can-store/22892/3 "2017-07-06T00:24:06Z")