# Write to hdfs from elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/write-to-hdfs-from-elasticsearch/71238
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** es-hadoop
**Created:** [January 11, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/write-to-hdfs-from-elasticsearch/71238 "2017-01-11T15:22:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@sbone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sbone)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/write-to-hdfs-from-elasticsearch/71238/1 "2017-01-11T15:22:39Z")
Is it possible to write from elasticsearch to hdfs?
the current pipeline is:
fluentd -\> elasticsearch
fluentd -\> flume -\> hdfs
elastic is used for realtime analysis and hive (on top of hdfs) is used for longer.
i would like to replace this setup with:
fluentd -\> elasticsearch -\> hdfs
but i have not been able to confirm whether this is possible/feasible.
do anyone have experience with this, or can point me to the docs?
thx.
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### Author:  [@james.baiera](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/james.baiera)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/write-to-hdfs-from-elasticsearch/71238/2 "2017-01-16T22:20:53Z")
If you want to extract data from Elasticsearch into a file format on HDFS you can use any of the provided mechanisms in the ES-Hadoop package to target the Elasticsearch indices you want to export and target HDFS as the desired output location.
You can realize this in a variety of ways, one of which includes creating an external Hive table (backed by ES) and a new Hive table (backed by HDFS) and doing an `INSERT ... SELECT` statement to transfer the data.
For more information on ES-Hadoop, you can take a look at the documentation pages [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/hadoop/current/index.html).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2017, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/write-to-hdfs-from-elasticsearch/71238/3 "2017-02-13T22:21:06Z")
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