Representing real-world data is very decisive in the sense that usually, straight data structures won't always suffice for your needs. Often, you would find yourself in a position where you would need to adopt a complex structure for your data with some kind of a relation within objects. Here, in this chapter, we will see how Elasticsearch provides provisions to manage such relational content. Here are the topics that we will cover in this chapter:

Elasticsearch provides a number of ways with which you can manage relational content. Of those, the simplest way is to directly add inner objects within your structure. Let's see how simple inner objects in Elasticsearch behave.