# How to structure posts with comments for a blog?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-structure-posts-with-comments-for-a-blog/22116
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 11, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-structure-posts-with-comments-for-a-blog/22116 "2015-02-11T21:42:15Z")
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Axelrod](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Axelrod)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-structure-posts-with-comments-for-a-blog/22116/1 "2015-02-11T21:42:15Z")
What's the best way to structure a post/comment system using elasticsearch?
I'm using elasticsearch as a secondary database.
There would be a post with a multithreaded commenting system, maybe two
levels deep.
Each post can have up to 500-1000 comments.
There will be incremental counters for both likes and comments for each
comment and post. This means a lot of indexing.
Is it better to go with nested objects OR parent/child OR something else?
Any advice on structure and how often to update elastricsearch would be
most appreaciated.
Thanks,
Andrew
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-structure-posts-with-comments-for-a-blog/22116/2 "2017-07-06T00:33:17Z")