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Mikhail Khludnev commented on SOLR-18307:
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Just recording an idea for the next {{{!auxIndexJoin}}} iteration:
* still stick to the sidecar index. I have a few ideas on how to fold it into
the main index, but they look too invasive to be worth it.
* take the join leaf, i.e. the {{from -> to}} column, {{to_docs[from_doc]}}.
* break this column into a few stripes along disjoint {{to}} ranges.
* encode each stripe of {{to_docs[from_doc]}} into a blob, picking a dense or a
sparse format per stripe, and store it in a BinaryDocValues (BinDV) field.
* add those stripe blobs as documents into the aux-index, along with the
from-seg and to-seg ids, the stripe ordinal, and the bounding box — the {{to}}
and {{from}} ranges.
* such an index is enough to get an approximation, which we then refine by
draining the stripes.
* merging and sweeping become much easier this way.
> segment-parallel query time join with sidecar index
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> Key: SOLR-18307
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-18307
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: query
> Reporter: Mikhail Khludnev
> Assignee: Mikhail Khludnev
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Fix For: 10.1
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> Attachments: Screenshot from 2026-08-29 18-14-22.png, hotspot.md
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> Time Spent: 50m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> Hereby I propose a new query-time join implementation
> * it's segment parallel
> * it's lazy - utilizes Two-Phase searching and beneficial from highly
> selective filter in "to"-side, as well as leap over whole "to" segments.
> * uses Lucene DocValues in sidecar - just an addition, there's no hard
> surgery on existing codebase. It's just a QParserPlugin.
> * joins crosscore, and works in cloud mode
> * may use Memory Directory for sidecar
> * writes sidecar lazily, but you can write it ahead
> * sweeps segments which are not needed anymore
> * the [simple benchmark|https://github.com/mkhludnev/aijoin-benchmark]
> demonstrates a few times gain
> WIP https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/4749
> benchmark: https://github.com/mkhludnev/aijoin-benchmark
> Caveat: during the demo 7/15/26 we evidence nearly the same size of sidecar
> index. it should be further investigated.
> Note: the name comes from Auxiliary Index Join.
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