# Is elastic contains two different memory?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-contains-two-different-memory/235670>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 4, 2020, 5:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-contains-two-different-memory/235670 "2020-06-04T05:40:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![gokulnath112](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@gokulnath112](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gokulnath112)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 5:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-contains-two-different-memory/235670/1 "2020-06-04T05:40:10Z")

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Hi everyone..! Greetings...!  
I studied that elasticsearch is using inverted indices to perform search much faster. My doubt is that is elasticsearch contains two different memories? one for inverted indices and another to store the documents?.  
Kindly clarify my doubt.

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 5:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-contains-two-different-memory/235670/2 "2020-06-04T05:56:37Z")

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That's true.

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**Author:** ![gokulnath112](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@gokulnath112](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gokulnath112)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-contains-two-different-memory/235670/3 "2020-06-04T13:39:43Z")

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Thanks alot dadoonet..!

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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 2, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-contains-two-different-memory/235670/4 "2020-07-02T13:39:46Z")

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Closed on July 2, 2020, 1:39pm UTC

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