# Where can we download the benchmark dataset? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** rally\ **Created:** [July 8, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-can-we-download-the-benchmark-dataset/55011 "2016-07-08T03:22:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chenryn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chenryn/32/44917_2.png) [@chenryn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chenryn)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-can-we-download-the-benchmark-dataset/55011/1 "2016-07-08T03:22:33Z")
I see 'Using JSON source documents: /l/data/geonames-documents.json.blocks' at [https://benchmarks.elastic.co/logs/fastsettings/2016-05-17-23-28-23.txt](https://benchmarks.elastic.co/logs/fastsettings/2016-05-17-23-28-23.txt) And Benchmark Scenarios only said 'indexes 8.6M documents (POIs from Geonames, total 2.8 GB json) ', but I can find anything named PIO at [www.geonames.org](http://www.geonames.org). So, where can I download the benchmark dataset? ---
**Author:** ![danielmitterdorfer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/danielmitterdorfer/32/110510_2.png) [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 6:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-can-we-download-the-benchmark-dataset/55011/2 "2016-07-20T06:24:51Z")
Hi @chenryn, you looked at our classic benchmarks which are not open-sourced. The new benchmarks are based on [Rally](https://github.com/elastic/rally) (which is open source). We publish the nightly results at [https://elasticsearch-benchmarks.elastic.co/geonames/](https://elasticsearch-benchmarks.elastic.co/geonames/) (and we run also the benchmarks for more data sets). The benchmark specifications are available in a separate Github repository ([https://github.com/elastic/rally-tracks](https://github.com/elastic/rally-tracks)) and if you look at the `track.json` files there you can figure out where you can download them. Having that said, you shouldn't really download them manually and just use Rally for that. It will automatically handle the download for you and run the benchmark. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-can-we-download-the-benchmark-dataset/55011/3 "2017-07-05T22:34:12Z")