# Why not ElasticSearch use HDFS as its low level storage? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 17, 2014, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-not-elasticsearch-use-hdfs-as-its-low-level-storage/20781 "2014-11-17T11:25:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![greek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@greek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/greek)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-not-elasticsearch-use-hdfs-as-its-low-level-storage/20781/1 "2014-11-17T11:25:39Z")
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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, 12:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-not-elasticsearch-use-hdfs-as-its-low-level-storage/20781/2 "2017-07-06T00:49:34Z")