What is the use of binary core type

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What is the advantage on using binary core type over String core type (with
index as false option) ?
Either way i can only store the base64 representation !!!

Thanks
Vineeth

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You can, though if you want to store it on its own, there is a difference
(storing it as binary vs. storing it as a string).

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Vineeth Mohan vineethmohan@algotree.comwrote:

What is the advantage on using binary core type over String core type (with
index as false option) ?
Either way i can only store the base64 representation !!!

Thanks
Vineeth

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Am not clear with this

Are you telling me i can store data as binary itself in elasticSearch
without converting it to base64 (Which will save me some space and
conversion overheads)

Thanks
Vineeth

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Shay Banon kimchy@gmail.com wrote:

You can, though if you want to store it on its own, there is a difference
(storing it as binary vs. storing it as a string).

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Vineeth Mohan vineethmohan@algotree.comwrote:

What is the advantage on using binary core type over String core type
(with index as false option) ?
Either way i can only store the base64 representation !!!

Thanks
Vineeth