# Is it possible to turn off field data compression?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-turn-off-field-data-compression/122816
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 7, 2018, 4:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-turn-off-field-data-compression/122816 "2018-03-07T04:29:01Z")
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### Author: ![Jun\_He](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b2d939/32.png) [@Jun\_He](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jun_He)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 4:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-turn-off-field-data-compression/122816/1 "2018-03-07T04:29:01Z")

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Hi,

According to [http://lucene.apache.org/core/6\_1\_0/core/index.html?org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene60/package-summary.html](http://lucene.apache.org/core/6_1_0/core/index.html?org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene60/package-summary.html) , Lucene compresses field text data by LZ4. Is it possible to turn off the compression?

Thanks,  
Jun

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### Author: ![zqc0512](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zqc0512/32/32141_2.png) [@zqc0512](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zqc0512)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-turn-off-field-data-compression/122816/2 "2018-03-07T06:45:46Z")

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as i know teamplte can use not compression about th data  
like:  
"settings": {  
"index": {  
"format": "6",

> ```
> "codec": "best_compression",
> 
> ```

"number\_of\_shards": "1",  
"number\_of\_replicas": "1"  
}  
}

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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: [March 8, 2018, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-turn-off-field-data-compression/122816/3 "2018-03-08T08:42:52Z")

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No, I don't think you can turn off compression. Why would you want to do that anyway?

[This post](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-compression/27590) discusses it in a bit more detail, and should still be relevant even though it covers an old version.

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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: [April 5, 2018, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-turn-off-field-data-compression/122816/4 "2018-04-05T08:43:04Z")

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