# Is aerospike\_batch\_get asynchronous?

**URL:** <https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/is-aerospike-batch-get-asynchronous/933>\
**Category:** C Client Library\
**Created:** [February 9, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/is-aerospike-batch-get-asynchronous/933 "2015-02-09T14:19:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![marks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@marks](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/marks)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/is-aerospike-batch-get-asynchronous/933/1 "2015-02-09T14:19:04Z")

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Just want to know if the batch operations in C API are blocking or not. They take a callback, but that seems they are called only when all records are found. Do I understand this correctly?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![marks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@marks](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/marks)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/is-aerospike-batch-get-asynchronous/933/2 "2015-02-09T15:16:11Z")

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I think this is already answered.

No Async supported directly in C API for now.