# Is the data in different shared gets varied in search?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-data-in-different-shared-gets-varied-in-search/38619>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 7, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-data-in-different-shared-gets-varied-in-search/38619 "2016-01-07T13:33:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![lalitha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@lalitha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lalitha)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-data-in-different-shared-gets-varied-in-search/38619/1 "2016-01-07T13:33:32Z")

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In case if i had two documents with same field value across two shared is it differ for same search criteria. For example if i had two msgs

1. Hi
2. Hi

If i search

POST /test/test/\_search  
{  
"query": {  
"match\_phrase\_prefix": {  
"msg": "hi"  
}  
}  
}

Is there any possibility to get results varied?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 5:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-data-in-different-shared-gets-varied-in-search/38619/2 "2016-01-08T05:18:51Z")

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Possibly yes, because the score of a document is relative to the other documents in the same shard.

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**Author:** ![lalitha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@lalitha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lalitha)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 5:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-data-in-different-shared-gets-varied-in-search/38619/3 "2016-01-08T05:33:43Z")

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Thanks for your response. Is there any way to avoid it?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 5:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-data-in-different-shared-gets-varied-in-search/38619/4 "2016-01-08T05:59:59Z")

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Have lots of documents, a single shard, or use routing.

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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 5, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-data-in-different-shared-gets-varied-in-search/38619/5 "2017-07-05T23:26:10Z")

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