# Storage in Elastic Search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storage-in-elastic-search/40573>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 31, 2016, 6:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storage-in-elastic-search/40573 "2016-01-31T06:22:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Anmol\_Garg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anmol_garg/32/7487_2.png) [@Anmol\_Garg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anmol_Garg)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 6:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storage-in-elastic-search/40573/1 "2016-01-31T06:22:28Z")

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Does a particular JSON document and it's indexed information stored in the same segment in a shard?  
Like how exactly is this information (the document as well as it's indexing) stored in elastic search?

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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:** [January 31, 2016, 8:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storage-in-elastic-search/40573/2 "2016-01-31T08:09:17Z")

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Yes. It's stored in the index in \_source field.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storage-in-elastic-search/40573/3 "2016-02-01T00:58:10Z")

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If you want to understand how it's stored, you will need to dig into the internals of Lucene.  
Check out [http://lucene.apache.org/core/5\_4\_1/core/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene54/package-summary.html#package\_description](http://lucene.apache.org/core/5_4_1/core/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene54/package-summary.html#package_description)

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storage-in-elastic-search/40573/4 "2017-07-05T23:20:01Z")

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