# What is differentce between index and create bulk commands?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-differentce-between-index-and-create-bulk-commands/6317
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 9, 2012, 4:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-differentce-between-index-and-create-bulk-commands/6317 "2012-01-09T04:41:47Z")
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### Author: ![Sam\_4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@Sam\_4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sam_4)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2012, 4:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-differentce-between-index-and-create-bulk-commands/6317/1 "2012-01-09T04:41:47Z")

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Hi

I'm confuse using index and create bulk command.

> <https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-river-rabbitmq/blob/master/README.md>

{ "index" : { "\_index" : "twitter", "\_type" : "tweet", "\_id" : "1" } }  
{ "tweet" : { "text" : "this is a tweet" } }

{ "create" : { "\_index" : "twitter", "\_type" : "tweet", "\_id" :  
"1" } }  
{ "tweet" : { "text" : "another tweet" } }

when used index or create and what effect happen when using both of  
them.

Thanks

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### Author: ![Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas_vlcek1/32/819_2.png) [@Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lukas_Vlcek1)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2012, 6:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-differentce-between-index-and-create-bulk-commands/6317/2 "2012-01-09T06:14:23Z")

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Hi,

create means that the document is indexed _only_ if it does not exists in  
the index yet (recognized by its "\_id"), otherwise it will fail.

See "Operation Type" in

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Regards,  
Lukas

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:41 AM, sam [mishra.sameek@gmail.com](mailto:mishra.sameek@gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm confuse using index and create bulk command.
> 
> [https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-river-rabbitmq/blob/master/README.md](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-river-rabbitmq/blob/master/README.md)
> 
> { "index" : { "\_index" : "twitter", "\_type" : "tweet", "\_id" : "1" } }  
> { "tweet" : { "text" : "this is a tweet" } }
> 
> { "create" : { "\_index" : "twitter", "\_type" : "tweet", "\_id" :  
> "1" } }  
> { "tweet" : { "text" : "another tweet" } }
> 
> when used index or create and what effect happen when using both of  
> them.
> 
> Thanks

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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, 3:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-differentce-between-index-and-create-bulk-commands/6317/3 "2017-07-06T03:43:27Z")

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