# Is it possible to Label Encode ES values in order to save space and increase speed?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-label-encode-es-values-in-order-to-save-space-and-increase-speed/180688>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 12, 2019, 8:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-label-encode-es-values-in-order-to-save-space-and-increase-speed/180688 "2019-05-12T08:26:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![NadavKal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nadavkal/32/70971_2.png) [@NadavKal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NadavKal)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 8:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-label-encode-es-values-in-order-to-save-space-and-increase-speed/180688/1 "2019-05-12T08:26:07Z")

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is there a way to "label encode" a field ("value" ==\> 1), only for it to be decoded in kibana display (1 ==\> "value") ?

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-label-encode-es-values-in-order-to-save-space-and-increase-speed/180688/2 "2019-05-12T09:04:21Z")

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Why would this increase speed and save space? Elasticsearch does a lot of optimizations of this type internally so I do not see there would be much to gain although it would add a lot of complexity.

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**Author:** ![NadavKal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nadavkal/32/70971_2.png) [@NadavKal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NadavKal)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-label-encode-es-values-in-order-to-save-space-and-increase-speed/180688/3 "2019-05-12T17:16:20Z")

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ok. thanks for your reply

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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:** [June 9, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-label-encode-es-values-in-order-to-save-space-and-increase-speed/180688/4 "2019-06-09T17:16:35Z")

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Closed on June 9, 2019, 5:16pm UTC

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