# Storing without Indexing?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-without-indexing/267795>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** elastic-app-search\
**Created:** [March 19, 2021, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-without-indexing/267795 "2021-03-19T10:23:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-without-indexing/267795/6 "2021-03-20T14:02:19Z")

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This would still mean that the data gets indexed and with it larger index sizes.  
Additionally I want to receive the data, but I don't want AppSearch to search in it.

I have a huge problem with the index size + performance, which I described here:

> [@Massive Index Size](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/massive-index-size/267885):
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> Hi there, I have indexed 11 Million Documents to a standard ES-Index ( products\_de-de) and an AppSearch index ( .ent-search-engine-60547892750dd40d0e4018ce) Actually the AppSearch Index is 6 times the size of the normal index, while there is an additional .ent-search-document-backend-60547892750dd40d0e4018ce index with roughly 9GBs of size. This also contributes to enormous load times for a simple search with 1 facet of around 800ms, which also doesn't get cached (fired the s…

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