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Joining queries
editJoining queries
editPerforming full SQL-style joins in a distributed system like Elasticsearch is prohibitively expensive. Instead, Elasticsearch offers two forms of join which are designed to scale horizontally.
See the Elasticsearch documentation on Joining queries for more details.