# Time Based queries

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-based-queries/4989>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 28, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-based-queries/4989 "2011-07-28T19:45:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![ElasticUser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ElasticUser](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ElasticUser)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-based-queries/4989/1 "2011-07-28T19:45:30Z")

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Hi,  
I am new to Elastic Search and currently looking into Java API. I have  
used XCOntentQueryBuilder  
XContentQueryBuilder qb = termQuery("@message", someString);

In addition to the name value pair , I also need to have time  
parameter passed to the query. Any suggestions on which QueryBuilder  
can be used? Any comments/suggestions welcome!

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**Author:** ![ElasticUser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ElasticUser](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ElasticUser)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-based-queries/4989/2 "2011-07-28T22:11:53Z")

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Any inputs on this? I need to construct a query with multiple name/  
value pairs.

On Jul 28, 12:45 pm, ElasticUser [lkodwa...@gmail.com](mailto:lkodwa...@gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi,  
> I am new to Elastic Search and currently looking into Java API. I have  
> used XCOntentQueryBuilder  
> XContentQueryBuilder qb = termQuery("@message", someString);
> 
> In addition to the name value pair , I also need to have time  
> parameter passed to the query. Any suggestions on which QueryBuilder  
> can be used? Any comments/suggestions welcome!

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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-based-queries/4989/3 "2011-07-29T06:33:04Z")

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One option is to use the bool query to combine different queries:  
[Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/query-dsl/bool-query.html).

Another option is to use filtered query:

> **[Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale](https://www.elastic.co)**
>
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the query you want to execute, and a filter (which can be simple ones,  
like term/range/..., or compound ones like and/or).

Why you would want to use filters compared to queries is explained here:  
[Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/query-dsl/).

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:11 AM, ElasticUser [lkodwaney@gmail.com](mailto:lkodwaney@gmail.com) wrote:

> Any inputs on this? I need to construct a query with multiple name/  
> value pairs.
> 
> On Jul 28, 12:45 pm, ElasticUser [lkodwa...@gmail.com](mailto:lkodwa...@gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > Hi,  
> > I am new to Elastic Search and currently looking into Java API. I have  
> > used XCOntentQueryBuilder  
> > XContentQueryBuilder qb = termQuery("@message", someString);
> > 
> > In addition to the name value pair , I also need to have time  
> > parameter passed to the query. Any suggestions on which QueryBuilder  
> > can be used? Any comments/suggestions welcome!

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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 6, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-based-queries/4989/4 "2017-07-06T03:58:54Z")

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