# Partial update vs Index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/partial-update-vs-index/201793>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 1, 2019, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/partial-update-vs-index/201793 "2019-10-01T11:59:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![111211](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/111211/32/54366_2.png) [@111211](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/111211)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/partial-update-vs-index/201793/1 "2019-10-01T11:59:46Z")

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I currently have a document of Elastic Search. My document has approximately 12000 fields.

I'll try to update partially.

Currently I am using Rest High level Client in Spring Framework.

1. Just Push all data to POST

2. Using partial update

Which can be faster in performance?

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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:** [October 1, 2019, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/partial-update-vs-index/201793/2 "2019-10-01T12:18:18Z")

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I'd bet on partial update as you have less to send over the network. That said it's not recommended to have so many fields and I think that there's a limit of 1000 fields nowadays.

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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:** [October 29, 2019, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/partial-update-vs-index/201793/3 "2019-10-29T12:18:21Z")

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