# What are the configurations I should make sure to get consistent results?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-the-configurations-i-should-make-sure-to-get-consistent-results/180459>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 10, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-the-configurations-i-should-make-sure-to-get-consistent-results/180459 "2019-05-10T00:35:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![deepak643](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deepak643/32/45940_2.png) [@deepak643](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/deepak643)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-the-configurations-i-should-make-sure-to-get-consistent-results/180459/1 "2019-05-10T00:35:24Z")

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I don't want elastic search to score or rank anything and retrieve things based on that rank. I want to provide equal score for all the documents. My use-case is in such a way that I want to use ES for pagination based on sorted by "created time".

Lets say I have 10k records.. And whenever I ask for nth page is should always return the same consistent and sorted by most recent created time. For this consistency, What should I make sure in ES? Will I ever be able to achieve this through ES?

I don't have that expertise. Any suggestions would be appreciated

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**Author:** ![deepak643](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deepak643/32/45940_2.png) [@deepak643](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/deepak643)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 4:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-the-configurations-i-should-make-sure-to-get-consistent-results/180459/2 "2019-05-10T04:45:31Z")

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@dodoonet Could you please help me answer this question?

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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:** [May 10, 2019, 5:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-the-configurations-i-should-make-sure-to-get-consistent-results/180459/3 "2019-05-10T05:49:23Z")

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Please don't ping people who are not yet involved in your thread. Thanks.

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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:** [May 10, 2019, 5:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-the-configurations-i-should-make-sure-to-get-consistent-results/180459/4 "2019-05-10T05:50:07Z")

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You can sort by any field instead of score.

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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:** [June 7, 2019, 5:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-the-configurations-i-should-make-sure-to-get-consistent-results/180459/5 "2019-06-07T05:50:09Z")

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Closed on June 7, 2019, 5:50am UTC

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