# How much Real Time is Elastic Search RealTime Search?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-much-real-time-is-elastic-search-realtime-search/15337>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 21, 2014, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-much-real-time-is-elastic-search-realtime-search/15337 "2014-01-21T08:11:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![love2dishtech](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/love2dishtech/32/1859_2.png) [@love2dishtech](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/love2dishtech)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-much-real-time-is-elastic-search-realtime-search/15337/1 "2014-01-21T08:11:00Z")

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I have been working around Elastic Search from a last couple of weeks, and trying to build a real-time OLTP system around the Elastic Search, where in the documents indexed in a logical transaction should be visible to the next transaction as soon as the first one is indexed.

However, Elastic Search claims to be real-time, it looks to me, that the search is only near-real time and not real time, which will require a minimum refresh interval to be defined for the documents to be available to search.

If that is the case, how the search can be real-time ?

I there, anything which I missed, to achieve an absolutely real-time search ?

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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 6, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-much-real-time-is-elastic-search-realtime-search/15337/2 "2017-07-06T01:55:43Z")

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