# JOIN operation in elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/join-operation-in-elasticsearch/174760>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 1, 2019, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/join-operation-in-elasticsearch/174760 "2019-04-01T10:42:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Praneet\_Khandelwal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/praneet_khandelwal/32/40565_2.png) [@Praneet\_Khandelwal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Praneet_Khandelwal)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/join-operation-in-elasticsearch/174760/1 "2019-04-01T10:42:24Z")

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Is there a way to do something similiar to a JOIN operation in elasticsearch?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/join-operation-in-elasticsearch/174760/2 "2019-04-01T10:54:50Z")

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Not really. Unless you are using parent/child feature.

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**Author:** ![Praneet\_Khandelwal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/praneet_khandelwal/32/40565_2.png) [@Praneet\_Khandelwal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Praneet_Khandelwal)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/join-operation-in-elasticsearch/174760/3 "2019-04-01T10:58:07Z")

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what do you mean by parent/child feature?  
I currently have different types of documents incoming into my ES setup and would like to correlate different types of documents to deduce some meaningful information.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 11:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/join-operation-in-elasticsearch/174760/4 "2019-04-01T11:16:51Z")

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[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/parent-join.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/parent-join.html)

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**Author:** ![Praneet\_Khandelwal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/praneet_khandelwal/32/40565_2.png) [@Praneet\_Khandelwal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Praneet_Khandelwal)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/join-operation-in-elasticsearch/174760/5 "2019-04-01T11:18:05Z")

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Thank you for the response

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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 29, 2019, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/join-operation-in-elasticsearch/174760/6 "2019-04-29T11:18:07Z")

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