# ROW\_NUMBER in Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/row-number-in-elasticsearch/139317>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 10, 2018, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/row-number-in-elasticsearch/139317 "2018-07-10T09:52:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![nikita\_aleksahin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a698b9/32.png) [@nikita\_aleksahin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nikita_aleksahin)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/row-number-in-elasticsearch/139317/1 "2018-07-10T09:52:14Z")

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Whether there is ROW\_NUMBER() equivalent in Elasticsearch? If there is no that as he can be replaced? I tried to understand, but experience in Elasticsearch isn't enough.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/row-number-in-elasticsearch/139317/2 "2018-07-10T09:54:32Z")

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No, there is no row number in Elasticsearch. What is it you are looking to do? What problem are you trying to solve?

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**Author:** ![nikita\_aleksahin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a698b9/32.png) [@nikita\_aleksahin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nikita_aleksahin)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/row-number-in-elasticsearch/139317/3 "2018-07-11T10:40:03Z")

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I have an index. There is Primary key and timestamp. I want to filter documents and to choose only current. If I would use SQL I used ROW\_NUMBER. And I want to learn whether it is possible as that to make it in ES.

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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:** [August 8, 2018, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/row-number-in-elasticsearch/139317/4 "2018-08-08T10:40:06Z")

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