# Is the concept of payload in ES same as in Lucene

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-concept-of-payload-in-es-same-as-in-lucene/237906>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 20, 2020, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-concept-of-payload-in-es-same-as-in-lucene/237906 "2020-06-20T08:20:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ziilozes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecb155/32.png) [@Ziilozes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ziilozes)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2020, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-concept-of-payload-in-es-same-as-in-lucene/237906/1 "2020-06-20T08:20:19Z")

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As far as i know, payload in Lucene is stored in inverted index, right after docid and term freq.  
But according to es reference on analysis-delimited-payload-tokenfilter, payload is stored in termVectors.  
So are these two the same thing?

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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 18, 2020, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-concept-of-payload-in-es-same-as-in-lucene/237906/2 "2020-07-18T08:20:24Z")

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