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I have a use case where I want to update the document without knowing its index. Currently I am querying by id and getting the index and then updating (2 operation). Update By Query API seems to perform this use case in single operation. But I am just skeptical because as per the Elasticsearch documentation,

When you submit an update by query request, Elasticsearch gets a snapshot of the data stream or index when it begins processing the request and updates matching documents using internal versioning.

As there will be a lot of updates, just want to know whether there will be a performance overhead when using _update_by_query for single document than getting and update using _update API.

bad_coder
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Internally, the _update_by_query gets translated into a search operation followed by an update, so it can be used. One consideration that you may have to make is that same ids can exist across ElasticSearch indexes.

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