# Porting a relational structure to Elasticsearch - Nested or Parent/Child

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/porting-a-relational-structure-to-elasticsearch-nested-or-parent-child/32920>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 24, 2015, 8:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/porting-a-relational-structure-to-elasticsearch-nested-or-parent-child/32920 "2015-10-24T20:50:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/porting-a-relational-structure-to-elasticsearch-nested-or-parent-child/32920/2 "2015-10-25T10:28:03Z")

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Rough decision process:

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