# Top Children query use cases?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/top-children-query-use-cases/10303>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 10, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/top-children-query-use-cases/10303 "2013-01-10T23:22:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/top-children-query-use-cases/10303/1 "2013-01-10T23:22:43Z")

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Hello,

Can somebody share a good use case or two for the Top Children query  
([http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/query-dsl/top-children-query.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/query-dsl/top-children-query.html))  
?

## Thanks, Otis

ELASTICSEARC Performance Monitoring - [http://sematext.com/spm/index.html](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html)

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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, 2:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/top-children-query-use-cases/10303/2 "2017-07-06T02:56:57Z")

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