# Is there any limit in types of same indice in elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-limit-in-types-of-same-indice-in-elasticsearch/81701
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 9, 2017, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-limit-in-types-of-same-indice-in-elasticsearch/81701 "2017-04-09T08:05:57Z")
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### Author:  [@svarup](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/svarup)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2017, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-limit-in-types-of-same-indice-in-elasticsearch/81701/1 "2017-04-09T08:05:57Z")
How many indice types we can create in the same indice, is there any limit or unlimited(means depends on storage space) especially in Elasticsearch 5.x?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2017, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-limit-in-types-of-same-indice-in-elasticsearch/81701/2 "2017-04-09T08:31:15Z")
There is a hard limit in the number of fields in an index. And we are thinking of removing types in the future.
So I'd either use one index per type or I would create within a single type different paths for inner types:
```
foo: {
},
bar: {
}
```
Where foo and bar are the "types"
Note that it will create some sparse fields.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2017, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-limit-in-types-of-same-indice-in-elasticsearch/81701/3 "2017-05-07T08:36:34Z")
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