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Supersedes #1298 by @brettwooldridge, rebased onto main over #1295 with one added commit.

NitriteIndexer.findByFilter returns a LinkedHashSet of every matching id, so find(k = v).firstOrNull() built the whole match set before handing back one row, and a bounded page paid for the entire result. On a non-unique index over a low-cardinality field that set is a large fraction of the collection on every lookup.

The composite layout already keeps its rows in key order, so the two plan shapes that map onto one bounded walk of it — an equality on the indexed field, and a two-sided range on it — are now served by a lazy iterator that starts at the first key inside the bounds and stops at the first key outside them. It honours the plan's reverse scan order by visiting the key groups backwards while reading each group forwards, exactly as the materialized scan orders them, skips entries removed in an open transaction, and returns a document indexed under several keys once.

NitriteIndex.findNitriteIdStream and NitriteIndexer.findByFilterStream are new default methods returning null, so every other index type, plugin indexer and plan shape keeps the materialized path unchanged. ReadOperations prefers the stream when one is offered; the covered-count shortcut that lets size() answer without fetching documents is kept by counting the streamed ids on demand, so size() still reads the index only.

Added on top of #1298

  • Rebased over perf: store a unique index as one id per key instead of a one-element list #1295, which landed after this branch was cut. Both changed SingleFieldIndex and SingleFieldIndexTest; the conflicts were additive on both sides and both were kept. IndexedStream also needed merging with fix: skip documents removed between an index lookup and the fetch #1302's prefetch-and-skip-missing iterator, which is orthogonal to the Iterable<NitriteId> widening and countIds() here.
  • Codacy's quality gate failed the original branch with "5 new issues (0 max.)". All of them were in the new range parser: four switch arms packing an assignment, a flag and a break onto one line, two-per-line declarations of the bounds, and java.util.ArrayDeque written out fully qualified. Fixed without changing behaviour — the GreaterEqual/Greater and LesserEqual/Lesser arms now share a body and derive inclusivity from the mode.

Tests

Local, on the rebase: nitrite 1783 pass, nitrite-mvstore-adapter 5444 pass / 1 skipped, BUILD SUCCESS.

One behaviour worth knowing

size() counts the ids the index supplied, while iteration skips ids whose document is gone (#1302). Under a concurrent remove the two can disagree by the removed rows. That is not new — the materialized path records nitriteIds.size() the same way — but the lazy path inherits it rather than fixing it.

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  • Performance Improvements
    • Indexed equality and two-sided range queries now retrieve matching records lazily, reducing unnecessary work for large result sets.
    • Query counts are calculated efficiently without always scanning or loading every matching document.
    • Paging and index-order results remain consistent for ascending and descending ranges.
    • Multi-valued indexed fields avoid returning duplicate documents.
    • Queries not supported by lazy index scanning continue to use the existing behavior.

brettwooldridge and others added 2 commits September 4, 2026 18:45
…every id

NitriteIndexer.findByFilter returns a LinkedHashSet of every matching id,
so find(k = v).firstOrNull() built the whole match set before handing back
one row, and a bounded page paid for the entire result. On a non-unique
index over a low-cardinality field that set is a large fraction of the
collection on every lookup.

The composite layout already keeps its rows in key order, so the two plan
shapes that map onto one bounded walk of it, an equality on the indexed
field and a two-sided range on it, are now served by a lazy iterator that
starts at the first key inside the bounds and stops at the first key outside
them. It honours the plan's reverse scan order by visiting the key groups
backwards while reading each group forwards, exactly as the materialized
scan orders them, skips entries removed in an open transaction, and returns
a document indexed under several keys once.

NitriteIndex.findNitriteIdStream and NitriteIndexer.findByFilterStream are
new default methods returning null, so every other index type, plugin
indexer and plan shape keeps the materialized path unchanged. ReadOperations
prefers the stream when one is offered; the covered-count shortcut that lets
size() answer without fetching documents is kept by counting the streamed
ids on demand, so size() still reads the index only.

Tests compare the stream with the materialized scan for equality, range and
reverse order, check the shapes it declines, show with a spied map that only
one key is read for the first row, and exercise counts, paging, descending
order, multi-valued fields and removals through the public API.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codacy's quality gate flagged five new issues on this branch. The switch arms
packed an assignment, a flag and a break onto one line, the bounds were declared
two to a line, and ArrayDeque was written out fully qualified.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds lazy index-ID streams for supported equality and two-sided range queries. It preserves materialized fallback behavior, adds deferred covered counts, and validates ordering, deduplication, paging, removals, and partial map consumption.

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Lazy index scan

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lazy stream contracts
nitrite/src/main/java/org/dizitart/no2/index/..., nitrite/src/main/java/org/dizitart/no2/common/streams/IndexedStream.java
Index APIs can return lazy RecordStream<NitriteId> results. IndexedStream accepts any Iterable and counts IDs without fetching documents.
Composite range traversal
nitrite/src/main/java/org/dizitart/no2/index/SingleFieldIndex.java
SingleFieldIndex lazily traverses supported equality and two-sided range scans. It preserves index order, reverse order, and unique document IDs.
Cursor and covered-count integration
nitrite/src/main/java/org/dizitart/no2/collection/operation/ReadOperations.java, nitrite/src/main/java/org/dizitart/no2/common/streams/DocumentStream.java
Read operations select lazy or materialized index scans. DocumentStream.size() can use a cached, deferred covered-count supplier.
Lazy scan validation
nitrite/src/test/java/org/dizitart/no2/collection/LazyIndexScanTest.java, nitrite/src/test/java/org/dizitart/no2/index/SingleFieldIndexTest.java
Tests cover query results, ordering, paging, multi-valued fields, removals, unsupported plans, deduplication, and bounded index-map reads.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 9f587

Supported equality and bounded range index queries now stream matching IDs lazily while preserving materialized fallback behavior for unsupported plans. The supplied test results and coverage indicate no concrete current-head merge-blocking risk.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Query
  participant ReadOperations
  participant ComparableIndexer
  participant SingleFieldIndex
  participant DocumentStream
  Query->>ReadOperations: execute indexed find plan
  ReadOperations->>ComparableIndexer: findByFilterStream
  ComparableIndexer->>SingleFieldIndex: findNitriteIdStream
  SingleFieldIndex-->>ReadOperations: lazy matching ID stream
  ReadOperations->>DocumentStream: create cursor and set count supplier
  DocumentStream->>SingleFieldIndex: count IDs when size is requested
  SingleFieldIndex-->>DocumentStream: covered count
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Codacy still reported three new issues. The seek was a ternary of ternaries
spanning 153 characters; it is a named method now, which also gives the four
bound cases somewhere to be explained. The rest were long lines in the tests.

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nitrite/src/main/java/org/dizitart/no2/index/ComparableIndexer.java (1)

70-74: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Add JavaDoc to both public members.

The repository guideline requires JavaDoc for every public API. Document ComparableIndexer.findByFilterStream and the IndexedStream constructor, including their parameters and return value where applicable.

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In `@nitrite/src/main/java/org/dizitart/no2/index/ComparableIndexer.java` around
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In `@nitrite/src/main/java/org/dizitart/no2/index/SingleFieldIndex.java`:
- Around line 315-321: Update the reverse equality-scan logic around the map key
iteration to avoid enqueueing an entire indexed-value group before consumption.
Iterate matching IDs lazily, advancing to the prior indexed value only after the
current group is exhausted, so callers such as limit(1) retain and read only the
IDs they need.

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In `@nitrite/src/main/java/org/dizitart/no2/index/ComparableIndexer.java`:
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Comment thread nitrite/src/main/java/org/dizitart/no2/index/SingleFieldIndex.java
One method carried both plan shapes and every rejection path for each, which is
where the remaining Codacy complexity findings sat. The two shapes have nothing
in common but the return type.

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nitrite/src/main/java/org/dizitart/no2/index/SingleFieldIndex.java (1)

321-327: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major

Keep reverse scans lazy within one key group.

The reverse branch reads every ID for the current value into group before hasNext() returns. A reverse equality query with many matching IDs therefore loads the full group even when the caller requests limit(1). Iterate one ID at a time, then move to the previous value after the group is exhausted.

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In `@nitrite/src/main/java/org/dizitart/no2/index/SingleFieldIndex.java` around
lines 321 - 327, Update the reverse equality-scan logic in SingleFieldIndex to
avoid eagerly adding the entire matching value group to group. Yield one
NitriteId at a time during hasNext/next iteration, and only advance to the
previous index value after the current group is exhausted, preserving lazy
behavior for limit(1).
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In `@nitrite/src/main/java/org/dizitart/no2/index/SingleFieldIndex.java`:
- Around line 321-327: Update the reverse equality-scan logic in
SingleFieldIndex to avoid eagerly adding the entire matching value group to
group. Yield one NitriteId at a time during hasNext/next iteration, and only
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anidotnet and others added 2 commits September 4, 2026 20:57
PMD's NPathComplexity, reported by Codacy: findSuitableStream at 450 against a
threshold of 200, ofBoundedRange at 228.

findSuitableStream was a four-deep if/else doing three unrelated jobs. The
by-id and indexed sources are their own methods now, the branch is a flat
else-if chain, and the residual filter's condition says what it means -
subPlans.isEmpty() && collectionScanFilter != null - instead of leaving it to
nesting depth. ofBoundedRange's switch became isLowerBound/isUpperBound.

No behaviour change; nitrite 1783 tests pass.

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The last of PMD's NPath findings. That tail is a stage every source shares and
the code already labelled it as one; it just had no method. Taking
"was the source already ordered by the index" as a boolean also says what
indexSortedStream was standing in for at that point.

nitrite 1783 tests pass.

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129-129: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Count only IDs that still produce rows. IndexedStream.countIds() counts every index ID, while IndexedStreamIterator.advance() skips IDs absent from nitriteMap. If an indexed document is removed before iteration, DocumentStream.size() can exceed the returned row count. Apply the same existence check in countIds() and add regression coverage for size() before iteration with a missing indexed document.

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The extraction carried the old method's accumulate-into-rawStream shape into a
parameter. A local makes the stage read as what it is: a chain that wraps the
source and returns it.

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