# When to use Coordinating vs Data Node

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/when-to-use-coordinating-vs-data-node/134125>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 1, 2018, 2:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/when-to-use-coordinating-vs-data-node/134125 "2018-06-01T02:53:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![keithag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@keithag](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/keithag)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/when-to-use-coordinating-vs-data-node/134125/3 "2018-06-12T13:07:02Z")

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Thank you for the clear and definitive response. That is very helpful. Can you help me further reconcile this advice with that provided by @javanna in this [answer](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rest-client-initialization/134128/2)?

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