# Searching by some property **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 29, 2017, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-by-some-property/80455 "2017-03-29T09:50:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nospor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nospor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nospor)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-by-some-property/80455/1 "2017-03-29T09:50:27Z")
Hi, I index some documents. They have structure like that ``` id title some stuff1 some stuff2 owner ``` So many documents can have the same owner When I search for documents with a specific eg title then it is fine. But now I need to search in owner. But I am not interested what documents have this owner. I am interested to find only owners what I am looking for. Is it possible or I need to create another index only for owners? ---
**Author:** ![dakrone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dakrone/32/23351_2.png) [@dakrone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dakrone)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-by-some-property/80455/2 "2017-03-29T16:20:52Z")
What you are describing is not a regular query, but is instead an aggregation. In your case, you would use the `terms` aggregation on the `owner` field to get the "top owners" based on the number of documents that contain them. Check out the docs for `terms` aggregation here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.3/search-aggregations-bucket-terms-aggregation.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.3/search-aggregations-bucket-terms-aggregation.html) ---
**Author:** ![nospor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nospor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nospor)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-by-some-property/80455/3 "2017-03-29T16:39:37Z")
Thx dakrone for you answer. I am using aggregations to take "top owners" in other place. But now I am not asking about top owners, but about searching in owners as normal documents. As I thought it is not possible, so I just created another index just for owners. ---
**Author:** ![dakrone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dakrone/32/23351_2.png) [@dakrone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dakrone)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-by-some-property/80455/4 "2017-03-29T16:54:12Z")
nospor writes: > I am using aggregations to take "top owners" in other place. But now I > am not asking about top owners, but about searching in owners as > normal documents. As I thought it is not possible, so I just created > another index just for owners. I'm still a little unclear on this, why can't you do a search like: ``` POST /_search { "query": { "owner": "ownerfoo" } } ``` Is there a different reason you need a separate index for it? ---
**Author:** ![nospor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nospor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nospor)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-by-some-property/80455/5 "2017-03-29T17:09:05Z")
Your query will return mi documents which contain owner "ownerfoo" or similiar. In this case I will get results with duplicated owner because lot of documents can have the same owner. I am looking for way to get distinct owners in all documents matching my pattern. I could use aggregations but then I am missing eg. pagination ---
**Author:** ![dakrone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dakrone/32/23351_2.png) [@dakrone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dakrone)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-by-some-property/80455/6 "2017-03-29T17:25:30Z")
nospor writes: > Your query will return mi documents which contain owner "ownerfoo" or > similiar. In this case I will get results with duplicated owner > because lot of documents can have the same owner. I am looking for way > to get distinct owners in all documents matching my pattern. I could > use aggregations but then I am missing eg. pagination Ahh okay, yes then, you'll need to structure the documents differently to accomplish that. ---
**Author:** ![nospor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nospor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nospor)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-by-some-property/80455/7 "2017-03-30T09:00:19Z")
Yes, that's why finally I used another index. I was thinking for the moment about adding another type to existing index, but I read that types in index should be similar and this owner data are quite different so I decided to use another index. Maybe it is better way to solve this but for now I am new in elastic 🙂 Thank you dakrone for your response 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dakrone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dakrone/32/23351_2.png) [@dakrone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dakrone)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-by-some-property/80455/8 "2017-03-30T18:44:35Z")
> Thank you dakrone for your response You're welcome! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-by-some-property/80455/9 "2017-04-27T18:44:40Z")
This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.