# Order of \_bulk request operations

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/order-of--bulk-request-operations/98124>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 23, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/order-of--bulk-request-operations/98124 "2017-08-23T19:38:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/order-of--bulk-request-operations/98124/2 "2017-08-23T21:09:26Z")

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You can rely on the fact that operations on the same document (same \_index, \_type and \_id) will be in order. However you can't assume anything for documents that have different indices/types/ids.

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