# Limits of Elastic Search
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limits-of-elastic-search/13562
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 11, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limits-of-elastic-search/13562 "2013-09-11T19:54:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Ashwin\_Sathya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ashwin_Sathya)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limits-of-elastic-search/13562/1 "2013-09-11T19:54:30Z")
It is a newbie question, please bare with me.
Is there an upper limit to number of indices ? number of types in an index ? number of documents in a type ?
Is it solely dependent upon the disk size available ?
Thanks,
Ashwin Sathya
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### Author:  [@polyfractal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/polyfractal)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limits-of-elastic-search/13562/2 "2013-09-11T20:57:23Z")
Nope, there are no hard limits. The number of all indices/types/documents
is all dependent on your particular setup (data + hardware). Some people
run one index with millions of documents, other people use hundreds of
time-based indices based, etc etc.
Indexes carry a certain amount of overhead, so it probably isn't efficient
to create thousands of indices even though it is technically possible.
-Zach
On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 3:54:30 PM UTC-4, R Ashwin Sathya wrote:
> It is a newbie question, please bare with me.
>
> Is there an upper limit to number of indices ? number of types in an index
> ? number of documents in a type ?
>
> Is it solely dependent upon the disk size available ?
>
> Thanks,
> Ashwin Sathya
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### Author:  [@Ashwin\_Sathya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ashwin_Sathya)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limits-of-elastic-search/13562/3 "2013-09-11T21:04:14Z")
Okay. That pretty much answers my query. Thanks, Zachary.
Thanks,
Ashwin Sathya
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:57:23 -0700
From: [zacharyjtong@gmail.com](mailto:zacharyjtong@gmail.com)
To: [elasticsearch@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch@googlegroups.com)
CC: [ashwin.sathya@outlook.com](mailto:ashwin.sathya@outlook.com)
Subject: Re: Limits of Elastic Search
Nope, there are no hard limits. The number of all indices/types/documents is all dependent on your particular setup (data + hardware). Some people run one index with millions of documents, other people use hundreds of time-based indices based, etc etc.
Indexes carry a certain amount of overhead, so it probably isn't efficient to create thousands of indices even though it is technically possible.
-Zach
On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 3:54:30 PM UTC-4, R Ashwin Sathya wrote:
It is a newbie question, please bare with me.
Is there an upper limit to number of indices ? number of types in an index ? number of documents in a type ?
Is it solely dependent upon the disk size available ?
Thanks,
Ashwin Sathya
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limits-of-elastic-search/13562/4 "2017-07-06T02:17:04Z")