# What type of nosql elasticsearch database does it belong to?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-type-of-nosql-elasticsearch-database-does-it-belong-to/224093>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 18, 2020, 11:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-type-of-nosql-elasticsearch-database-does-it-belong-to/224093 "2020-03-18T11:32:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![hiba](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hiba/32/110919_2.png) [@hiba](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hiba)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 11:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-type-of-nosql-elasticsearch-database-does-it-belong-to/224093/1 "2020-03-18T11:32:41Z")

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Hi,  
ElasticSearch is a document-oriented or column-oriented NoSQL engine.

Any help please !

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**Author:** ![rameshkr1994](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rameshkr1994/32/59029_2.png) [@rameshkr1994](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rameshkr1994)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-type-of-nosql-elasticsearch-database-does-it-belong-to/224093/2 "2020-03-18T11:50:10Z")

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Hi @hiba welcome 🙂 .

> its document-oriented No-Sql engine.

for more details -

> **[Elasticsearch as a NoSQL Database](https://www.elastic.co/blog/found-elasticsearch-as-nosql)**
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> Can Elasticsearch be used as a "NoSQL"-database? NoSQL means different things in different contexts, and interestingly it's not really about SQL. We will start out with a "Maybe!", and look into the various properties of Elasticsearch as well as...

[https://dzone.com/articles/what-is-elasticsearch-and-how-it-can-be-useful](https://dzone.com/articles/what-is-elasticsearch-and-how-it-can-be-useful)

Thanks  
HadoopHelp

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**Author:** ![hiba](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hiba/32/110919_2.png) [@hiba](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hiba)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-type-of-nosql-elasticsearch-database-does-it-belong-to/224093/3 "2020-03-18T11:56:41Z")

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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:** [March 18, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-type-of-nosql-elasticsearch-database-does-it-belong-to/224093/4 "2020-03-18T15:14:40Z")

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Well. It's a bit more complicated.

It's a document data store, a search engine, an analytics engine...

For the later. We are using column oriented data structures.

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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:** [April 15, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-type-of-nosql-elasticsearch-database-does-it-belong-to/224093/5 "2020-04-15T15:14:47Z")

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