# Is a Geohash grid/bucket key value store possible with Elastic Search?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-a-geohash-grid-bucket-key-value-store-possible-with-elastic-search/19372>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 20, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-a-geohash-grid-bucket-key-value-store-possible-with-elastic-search/19372 "2014-08-20T18:40:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Albert\_Lim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Albert\_Lim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Albert_Lim)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-a-geohash-grid-bucket-key-value-store-possible-with-elastic-search/19372/1 "2014-08-20T18:40:32Z")

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Is it possible to use Elastic Search as a geohash key-value store?

For example, I'd like to store objects that update their location  
periodically into Elastic Search, using their geohash as an index. Write  
speed isn't too important, just read speed. So I'd like to use a key-value  
geohash lookup, which would theoretically be fast. I looked into Redis, but  
I really like Elastic Search's out of the box HA, and built in geolocation  
support such as prefix queries/lookups.

I'm not sure how Elastic Search works under the covers, so would this be  
possible?

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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, 1:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-a-geohash-grid-bucket-key-value-store-possible-with-elastic-search/19372/2 "2017-07-06T01:07:21Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 1:07am UTC