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Fixes #8664
Fixes #8660
Refs #8286 (churn half; literal parameterization stays tracked by #8307)

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OrderByIndexNullScanTest, Issue8660BucketSpaceReuseTest, SegmentedLRUCacheTest, StatementCacheTest, CypherStatementCacheChurnTest; engine sql/engine/opencypher-query/utility suites green.

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    • Improved reuse of bucket space after large-scale deletions, helping limit unnecessary database growth.
    • Improved reuse of bucket space statistics during scans so allocations can find suitable pages more reliably.
    • Made index-ordered queries more efficient when null values are excluded, while preserving results for nullable data.
    • Improved query cache resilience to bursts of one-off statements, helping frequently reused SQL and Cypher queries stay cached.

… keep reusing freed bucket pages, scan-resistant statement caches

- #8664: an ascending ORDER BY over an indexed property no longer scans the type for nulls when the property is NOTNULL or the WHERE clause excludes nulls
- #8660: pages under the usable-space threshold leave the free-space map, and a gather cut short by the entry cap resumes where it stopped instead of waiting for the timeout
- #8286: SQL and Cypher statement caches are segmented LRU, so one-off query texts do not evict the statements that are hit repeatedly
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The changes update bucket free-space gathering and reuse, add scan-resistant caching for SQL and OpenCypher statements, and adjust SQL index-ordered scans when query conditions exclude null values.

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Bucket Space Reuse

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Resumable free-space gathering
engine/src/main/java/com/arcadedb/engine/LocalBucket.java, engine/src/test/java/com/arcadedb/engine/Issue8660BucketSpaceReuseTest.java
LocalBucket resumes gathers stopped at the map cap and retries allocation when gathered candidates do not fit. It removes updated pages when they fall below the minimum byte or percentage threshold. The regression test checks page counts after deleting and refilling records.

Scan-Resistant Statement Caches

Layer / File(s) Summary
Segmented cache behavior
engine/src/main/java/com/arcadedb/utility/SegmentedLRUCache.java, engine/src/test/java/com/arcadedb/utility/SegmentedLRUCacheTest.java
SegmentedLRUCache adds bounded probationary and protected LRU segments. Tests cover retention during one-off key scans, capacity, promotion, removal, and clearing.
Statement cache integration
engine/src/main/java/com/arcadedb/query/sql/parser/StatementCache.java, engine/src/main/java/com/arcadedb/query/opencypher/query/CypherStatementCache.java, engine/src/test/java/com/arcadedb/query/sql/parser/StatementCacheTest.java, engine/src/test/java/com/arcadedb/query/opencypher/query/CypherStatementCacheChurnTest.java
Both statement caches use SegmentedLRUCache. Cypher cache operations synchronize on the cache. Churn tests check that frequently reused statements remain cached.

SQL Index-Ordered Scans

Layer / File(s) Summary
Null exclusion in index-ordered plans
engine/src/main/java/com/arcadedb/query/sql/executor/SelectExecutionPlanner.java, engine/src/test/java/com/arcadedb/query/sql/OrderByIndexNullScanTest.java
The planner uses an index directly when the property is NOTNULL or every flattened WHERE branch excludes null. Tests check plans and result ordering for null-excluding and nullable queries.

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- Around line 6298-6302: Update the resumed gather and lookup in the
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Overall this is a solid, well-scoped set of fixes with good regression tests. The logic in cannotHoldNull is correct: I checked that =, <, <=, >, >= all return false on a null operand (QueryOperatorEquals.equals, LtOperator.execute), the WHERE clause is still applied afterwards, and unrecognized shapes fall back to the conservative sub-plan. SegmentedLRUCache is correct for the tested paths (promotion, demotion, eviction order). Some points, roughly by importance:

Should fix

  1. Issue8660BucketSpaceReuseTest needs @Tag("slow") (engine/src/test/java/com/arcadedb/engine/Issue8660BucketSpaceReuseTest.java). It inserts 300k records, deletes in 30 transactions, reopens, then inserts another 270k. CLAUDE.md asks for @Tag("slow") on functional regression tests with large batches so they stay out of regular CI lanes.

  2. SegmentedLRUCache capacity 0 no longer disables the cache. The old StatementCache (removeEldestEntry with size() > 0) behaved as "no caching" for arcadedb.sqlStatementCache=0. The new constructor does Math.max(1, capacity), so a size of 0 now keeps one statement. Harmless in practice but a silent behavior change. Either keep 0 meaning "empty" or mention it in the PR.

Worth a look (LocalBucket)

  1. Map can grow past MAX_PAGES_GATHER_STATS on the new retry path. In findAvailableSpace, when nothing in a full map fits (e.g. a large record) and gatherTruncated is true, gatherPageStatistics() starts at gatherResumePage. The put happens before the size check, so a full map admits one more entry and then breaks. Each such insert therefore adds at most one page, and the map is never trimmed, so a run of large-record inserts can grow it toward the number of pages with >10% free. It is bounded and self-correcting (entries are removed as pages fill), but the cap no longer means what the comment says. Consider checking size() >= MAX before put.

  2. Unsynchronized read of gatherTruncated. The field comment says it is guarded by the freeSpaceInPages monitor, but final boolean resuming = gatherTruncated; at the top of gatherPageStatistics() reads it outside the synchronized block (the close() writes are also unguarded). The race is benign (worst case one extra or skipped scan), but either make it volatile or adjust the comment.

  3. The retry in findAvailableSpace uses spaceNeeded but not the half-size fallback that the first attempt uses, so a chunked record can still skip newly gathered pages that would take half of it. Probably fine, but worth a comment or a shared helper.

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  • StatementCache.java: there is now a double blank line after the imports, and the class Javadoc has a very long line (well past the 160 print width).
  • CypherStatementCache: every caller wraps cache.get/put in synchronized (cache) by hand, including two separate lock acquisitions in getParsed. It works, but a small synchronized wrapper would make misuse harder. Two concurrent misses on the same text will both parse (harmless, same as before).
  • SegmentedLRUCacheTest: add a test where the protected segment overflows while there is probation traffic (the demoted entry should then be evictable), and one for put on a key that already lives in the protected segment (value replaced, not duplicated).
  • OrderByIndexNullScanTest.nullableAscendingStillReturnsNullsFirst: values("... WHERE x IS NULL OR x < 3 ORDER BY x") only asserts hasSize(3). Asserting the actual sequence (null, 1, 2) would pin the mixed-branch case.
  • Missing negative cases for cannotHoldNull: a WHERE where only one OR branch excludes null (e.g. x > 5 OR y = 1), and a conjunct on a different property (y IS NOT NULL ORDER BY x) should keep the FETCH FROM TYPE sub-plan. These are the regressions that would silently drop null rows.
  • NOTNULL is trusted as a guarantee. If the property was declared notnull after records with nulls already existed, those rows would be dropped from the ASC result under SKIP/ERROR null strategy. Probably acceptable, but worth knowing.

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Pre-verified the head 62124466c9 with the three issues' own repros. The engine jar was built from this head and run with the rest of the 66a82a8fd0 snapshot's jars. The "before" arm is the build each issue was measured on (b8ab990821 for #8664 and #8660) or, for #8286, the 66a82a8fd0 snapshot unchanged. Embedded, laptop NVMe, Temurin 25 with compact headers / Temurin 21.

#8664 (OrderByLimit.java, 1,000,000 rows, p50 of 7):

query before this head
ORDER BY x LIMIT 10, x declared NOTNULL 295.72 / 302.28 ms 0.95 / 0.84 ms
WHERE x IS NOT NULL ORDER BY x LIMIT 10 279.97 / 299.36 ms 0.92 / 1.09 ms
ORDER BY x LIMIT 10, nullable x (unchanged by design) 290.05 / 299.67 ms 291.27 / 296.32 ms

#8660 (BucketSpaceReuse.java, identical on both JDKs): 1,000,000 documents now take 2,062 pages (2,268 before). After deleting 90% and reopening, the 900,000 new records land 180,000 / 180,000 / 180,000 / 180,000 / 77,004 on the pre-existing pages across the five chunks (before: 44,181, then 0, 0, 0, 0), and the bucket ends at 2,277 pages instead of 4,231.

#8286 (LiteralCacheChurn.java, the parameterized lookup with 400 embedded-value lookups between its calls, p50, the two measured passes):

before this head
Cypher 0.160 and 0.106 / 0.169 and 0.111 ms 0.024 and 0.021 / 0.019 and 0.015 ms
SQL 0.104 and 0.053 / 0.099 and 0.047 ms 0.033 and 0.022 / 0.035 and 0.021 ms

With no embedded-value lookups in between, both are unchanged (Cypher 0.005 to 0.006 ms, SQL 0.007 to 0.008 ms). I'll re-run on the merged commit.

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🟡 Minor · Do not treat >= and <= as null-rejecting predicates. · SelectExecutionPlanner.java:3729-3770

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Do not treat >= and <= as null-rejecting predicates.

For WHERE x >= x ORDER BY x, a nullable indexed x can reach the sort-only path because the right-side property is not an early-calculated index bound. GeOperator returns true when both operands are null before checking for null. The same applies to LeOperator.

excludesNull therefore returns true, so the planner skips the null-fetch path. With the default SKIP null strategy, the qualifying null row is absent from the index and can be omitted.

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-      return (operator instanceof EqualsCompareOperator || operator instanceof GtOperator || operator instanceof GeOperator
-          || operator instanceof LtOperator || operator instanceof LeOperator) && isPropertyReference(binary.getLeft(), propertyName);
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Well-scoped PR with a test for each of the three fixes. No blocking issues found; a few points below.

#8664 cannotHoldNull (SelectExecutionPlanner)

  • The logic is conservative in the right direction: only IS NOT NULL, =, <, <=, >, >= with the property on the left, and every OR branch must have such a conjunct. null = x evaluates to false in QueryOperatorEquals, so = is safe too.
  • Pre-existing, not introduced here: for a composite index the LSM index skips an entry when any key component is null, but the fallback null plan (and now cannotHoldNull) only looks at the first indexed property. So ORDER BY a on an index (a, b) with a nullable b can already miss rows. Worth a follow-up issue rather than a change in this PR.
  • If ALTER PROPERTY ... NOTNULL can be applied over existing rows without validating them, trusting isNotNull() for index completeness is slightly optimistic. Worth a quick check.

#8660 LocalBucket

  • When the map is full and nothing in it fits (e.g. a large record vs. a map full of mid-size pages), gatherTruncated stays true and every such insert calls gatherPageStatistics(), which reads one page (the entry cap trips immediately) and advances the cursor by one. It terminates and is cheap per call, but it is an extra page read plus getOrderedRecordsInPage per insert with little chance of a hit. Consider not resuming while the map is already at MAX_PAGES_GATHER_STATS.
  • The containsKey(pageId) guard when the map is full is a good touch (refreshes an entry without overflowing).
  • Two of the new comments are in ALL CAPS and reference the issue number; CLAUDE.md asks for short comments that explain only the non-obvious WHY.

#8286 SegmentedLRUCache

  • Logic looks correct (promotion, demotion into probation, eviction from probation first, capacity 0 and 1). get() mutates state, so callers must synchronize; both do, and parsing stays outside the lock.
  • A stored null value is indistinguishable from a miss. Fine for current callers, but a line in the Javadoc would help.
  • StatementCache: a double blank line after the imports, and the first paragraph of the class Javadoc runs well past 160 columns; please rewrap.

Tests

  • Issue8660BucketSpaceReuseTest loads 300k records, deletes 270k in 30 transactions and reloads 270k more. That is noticeably long; per CLAUDE.md it should carry @Tag("slow").
  • OrderByIndexNullScanTest asserts on plan text (FETCH FROM TYPE, PARALLEL), which is brittle against step renames. Acceptable, since the result assertions carry the real check. Missing cases: parameterized predicates (x = ?), an OR where only one branch excludes null (must keep the null scan), and DESC with nulls last on a nullable property.
  • Style follows CLAUDE.md (assertThat(...).isTrue(), no wall-clock assertions).

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Well-scoped fixes with a regression test for each. I read the full diff and checked the null semantics used by the planner change against the operators (I did not run the test suites).

#8664 - cannotHoldNull / excludesNull

  • Verified: QueryOperatorEquals.equals, GtOperator and LtOperator return false when either side is null, so treating =, >, < and IS NOT NULL as null-excluding is correct. Leaving out >= / <= because of x >= x is a good catch and is tested.
  • The WHERE is still applied as a filter afterwards, so a false negative only costs the optimization, while a false positive would drop rows. Checking only binary.getLeft() (so 5 < x misses the optimization) is the safe direction. Optional: also match the right side with the flipped operator.
  • IN / BETWEEN also exclude nulls but are not recognised. Fine to leave for later.

#8660 - LocalBucket free-space map

  1. Retry can do useless work when the map is full. In findAvailableSpace, the new bestPageAnalysis == null && gatherTruncated branch calls gatherPageStatistics(). If the map already holds MAX_PAGES_GATHER_STATS (100) entries and none fit the record (e.g. a large record while the map holds ~11%-free pages), the scan reads one page, cannot add anything, breaks on size() >= MAX, re-sets gatherTruncated = true and advances the cursor by one. Every such insert then pays a getPage + getOrderedRecordsInPage for no benefit, and the map stays full of non-fitting entries. Suggest guarding the retry with freeSpaceInPages.size() < MAX_PAGES_GATHER_STATS, or evicting entries that did not fit.
  2. Threshold boundary mismatch. gatherPageStatistics lists a page only when freeSpacePerc > GATHER_STATS_MIN_SPACE_PERC, while updatePageStatistics removes on < ... and adds on >= .... A page at exactly 10% is kept by one path and skipped by the other, so the new comment (update matches what gather would list) is not quite true at the boundary. Harmless, but worth using one comparison in both.
  3. Concurrency looks fine: gatherResumePage is only touched under the freeSpaceInPages monitor, and the unsynchronized volatile read of gatherTruncated is re-checked inside the lock. Resetting both fields in close() is good. The wrap-around scan terminates correctly and only goes back to being throttled after a full pass that does not fill the map.
  4. Test weight: Issue8660BucketSpaceReuseTest inserts 300k records, deletes 270k, reopens and inserts 270k more. Per CLAUDE.md, multi-second functional regression tests should carry @Tag("slow"). Please add it unless it runs well under a couple of seconds.

#8286 - SegmentedLRUCache

  • The design is sound and the eviction/demotion logic is correct (promotion keeps total size constant, demoted entry goes to the MRU end of probation, eviction falls back to protected only when probation is empty). Capacity 0 and 1 are handled and tested.
  • Thread-safety: the class is documented as not thread safe, and both StatementCache and CypherStatementCache guard every access with synchronized (cache), replacing Collections.synchronizedMap. I found no unguarded path, and parsing stays outside the lock, which is right.
  • Behavior note: an entry needs two hits to become protected, and with the 80/20 split only the probation slots absorb one-off churn. Statements re-run less often than the churn rate can still be evicted before a second hit. Still better than plain LRU, but worth knowing when tuning cache size.
  • Nits: StatementCache.java now has a doubled blank line after the imports and a very long new Javadoc line. A one-line comment on why capacity < 2 has no protected segment would help readers.

Tests
Good coverage: planner (NOTNULL, WHERE-excluded, nullable ordering, >= self-comparison), cache unit tests, and per-engine churn tests. Suggested additions:

No security concerns. Nothing here blocks the merge, but I would address the map-full retry guard and the @Tag("slow") first.

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Overall this is a well-scoped, well-tested PR. I read all three changes and found no blocking issues. Notes below, ordered by importance. I did not build or run the tests, so this is a read-through of the diff only.

#8664 - ORDER BY null scan (SelectExecutionPlanner)

  • The conservative approach is right. >= and <= are excluded on purpose, and there is a regression test for x >= x. I checked QueryOperatorEquals.equals and the Gt/Lt operators, and all three return false on a null operand, so =, < and > are safe to treat as null-excluding.
  • Composite indexes: cannotHoldNull only looks at indexFields.getFirst(). This matches the existing IS NULL sub-plan, which also only checks the first property. Under NULL_STRATEGY.SKIP, though, a composite index also omits rows where a later property is null. This is not a regression, but the new fast path makes it a little more visible. A short comment, or a follow-up issue, would help. No test covers a composite index with a NOTNULL first property.
  • Only property <op> expr is recognised. 5 < x is not, so it falls back to the slow path. That is safe, and worth a one-line mention in the Javadoc.
  • Tests cover the NOTNULL, IS NOT NULL and self-comparison cases, but not an OR where only one branch excludes nulls. That is the path that returns false from the loop, so a small test would lock it in.

#8660 - bucket space reuse (LocalBucket)

  • Making updatePageStatistics drop sub-threshold pages, and using > / <= consistently with gatherPageStatistics, removes the stale-full-map problem at its source.
  • The resume cursor logic is correct, including wrap-around and the scanned + 1 < pagesToScan truncation flag. gatherResumePage is only touched under the freeSpaceInPages monitor, and close() resets both fields.
  • gatherTruncated = false is set before the scan loop. If getPage throws, the resume state is lost and the next gather is throttled again. This is minor. Restoring the flag in the catch or finally would make the retry robust.
  • Cost in findAvailableSpace: the new retry can run a partial file scan under the monitor on every insert that finds no fitting page while gatherTruncated is set and the map is under the cap. Each scan advances the cursor, so the total work is amortised to about one file pass, and a scan that completes the circle re-enables the throttle. Still, an insert-heavy workload with large records could see several long scans back to back. The Issue8660 test measures page growth but not this latency, so it would be worth a quick benchmark on a large fragmented bucket.
  • Issue8660BucketSpaceReuseTest is tagged slow. It asserts on page count rather than wall clock, which follows the CLAUDE.md rules. The 1.25x bound looks reasonable.

#8286 - SegmentedLRUCache

  • The implementation is clean. The segmented design, demotion on protected overflow, and the capacity 0 and 1 edge cases are all handled, and the tests cover them.
  • Behaviour change worth noting: a statement now needs a second hit before it is protected. With the default cache size, the effective probation window is about 20% of capacity. A statement seen twice within a burst of more than that many other new statements is still evicted. That is the intended trade-off, but a line in the class Javadoc would help.
  • CypherStatementCache previously used Collections.synchronizedMap. It now uses synchronized (cache) blocks with the parse done outside the lock, which is fine. Two racing threads may both parse and the last put wins, and that was already the case.
  • get treats a null value as a miss. That is fine for the current callers, but it is an implicit contract, so it should be documented.
  • Nit: SegmentedLRUCache has no Map view, so StatementCache and CypherStatementCache rely on external synchronisation by convention. The Javadoc says this, which is good enough.

Style / CLAUDE.md

  • Imports, final usage and the assertThat(...) style all follow the conventions.
  • The new LocalBucket comments use an ALL CAPS style. That matches nearby code, but the long #8660: ... comments could be shorter.

No blockers from my side. The composite-index note and the exception-safety of gatherTruncated are the two items I would look at before merging.

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Review of PR #8677 (#8664, #8660, #8286)

Overall this is well reasoned and well tested. The null-exclusion analysis holds up when I check it against the operators: QueryOperatorEquals.equals, GtOperator and LtOperator all return false when either side is null, and leaving >= and <= out is correct given the x >= x case. Nothing here looks blocking. Notes below, roughly by importance.

LocalBucket (#8660)

  1. Repeated scans when the map holds pages that never fit. The new block in findAvailableSpace calls gatherPageStatistics() whenever nothing in the map fits, gatherTruncated is set and the map is below the cap. If the map has (cap - 1) entries that are too small for this record, each insert of that size runs a synchronized scan. It re-adds one page and hits the cap again, and gatherTruncated stays true. The work per call is bounded, but it happens under the freeSpaceInPages monitor with page reads, and could get expensive for a workload of large records against a fragmented bucket. Consider recording that a resume pass already found nothing for this spaceNeeded, or capping resume gathers per N inserts.
  2. A failing scan is retried on every allocation. The catch restores gatherTruncated = true when resuming. That bypasses the throttle by design, but a persistent I/O or corruption error will now re-run and log a WARNING with a stack trace on every insert that needs space. A small backoff, for example stamping timeOfLastStats on failure, would avoid the log spam.
  3. The <= and > threshold changes in updatePageStatistics now match the > in the gather. Good catch on the boundary consistency. gatherTruncated is volatile and gatherResumePage is only touched inside the monitor, so the visibility looks right.
  4. Coverage: Issue8660BucketSpaceReuseTest is a 300k-record @Tag("slow") end-to-end test, so the resume and wrap-around logic and the failed-scan restore path are not covered by a fast test on regular CI. A small test with a low page count would help, if MAX_PAGES_GATHER_STATS can be exercised without 100+ pages. The pagesBefore * 1.25 bound is a page count, not wall clock, so that is fine per CLAUDE.md.

SegmentedLRUCache (#8286)

  1. Memory sizing. The constructor pre-sizes both LinkedHashMaps to capacity/0.75, so the hash tables are allocated at about 2x what is needed. That is harmless for the default statement cache sizes but wasteful for large configured sizes. Sizing the protected map at protectedCapacity and probation at capacity - protectedCapacity would avoid it.
  2. Behaviour change worth documenting. With a 20% probation window, a statement needs a second hit before roughly 0.2 * capacity other new texts arrive to be protected. Workloads with many distinct statements that are each re-run only occasionally will now cache worse than the old plain LRU. The class Javadoc says this, but the PR description only mentions the win. A release note would be useful.
  3. Null values are silently treated as a miss, which is fine for the two callers. It could be stated in the Javadoc.
  4. Tests: good coverage of scan resistance, demotion, tiny capacities and remove/clear. Capacity 0 is documented but has no test. There is also no concurrency test for CypherStatementCache, which moved from synchronizedMap to manual synchronized(cache) blocks. The blocks look correct, but a simple multi-thread getParsed smoke test would guard the refactor.

SelectExecutionPlanner (#8664)

  1. cannotHoldNull reads the property via type.getPropertyIfExists, which is inheritance-aware. One caveat: NOTNULL is only enforced on write. If a property was made NOTNULL via ALTER PROPERTY on a type that already holds records without the value, the index-only path will now skip records that the null sub-plan used to return. That is likely acceptable, but it is worth confirming what ALTER PROPERTY ... NOTNULL does with existing data.
  2. Only the first indexed property is inspected. That is conservative and correct, and the Javadoc says so.
  3. Tests cover the important negatives (OR branch without exclusion, >= self-comparison, nullable ascending). A DESC-with-WHERE case, a multi-property index case and a NOTNULL property inherited from a parent type would round it out.

Style (CLAUDE.md)

Style, final usage, imports and assertion syntax follow the conventions. No debug output or em dashes spotted.

The points I would address before merging are 1 and 2 under LocalBucket (repeated resume gathers and log spam on failure). The rest are suggestions.

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Good PR overall: three focused fixes, each with a regression test, and the new SegmentedLRUCache is small and easy to follow. I found one correctness problem in issue 8664 and a few smaller points.

Bug: NOTNULL does not guarantee the property is present (8664)

cannotHoldNull() in SelectExecutionPlanner.java returns true as soon as property.isNotNull(). But NOTNULL only rejects an explicit null. See DocumentValidator.unmetExistenceConstraint:

if (p.isNotNull() && document.has(name) && document.get(name) == null)
    return ExistenceConstraint.NOT_NULL;

A record that omits a NOTNULL property is valid unless the property is also MANDATORY. Such a record is not in an index with the default SKIP strategy. With this change, SELECT ... ORDER BY x on a NOTNULL, non-mandatory, indexed property silently drops those records. Before, the IS NULL sub-plan returned them first.

Suggested fix: only shortcut when property.isNotNull() && property.isMandatory(). The WHERE-based path is fine, because a missing property evaluates as null there.

Please add a regression test: NOTNULL (not mandatory) property, insert one record without x, and assert ORDER BY x still returns it. The current notNullPropertySkipsNullScan test only loads records that have a value, so it cannot catch this.

I also checked the WHERE path. "=", "<" and ">" return false on a null operand (QueryOperatorEquals.equals and Lt/GtOperator), and leaving out ">=" and "<=" is correct.

Smaller points

  • SegmentedLRUCache Javadoc: the last sentence of the class comment ("Null values are not cached ... Not thread safe ...") is one very long line. Please wrap it.
  • SegmentedLRUCacheTest: there is no test that a hot entry which stops being used is eventually demoted and evicted, so protected-segment staleness is not covered. There is also no test that put on an existing protected key updates the value. Both are cheap to add.
  • gatherPageStatistics (8660): the new retry path in findAvailableSpace can trigger a full-file scan on an insert path, but only while gatherTruncated is true, and the scan clears the flag once it reaches the end of the file, so the cost is bounded. A short comment stating that bound would help the next reader, since the cursor and wrap-around logic is subtle.
  • gatherResumePage and gatherTruncated are only reset in close() and in the gather itself. Please confirm nothing else can leave a stale gatherResumePage. The "< pagesToScan" guard looks like it covers a shrinking file.
  • Issue8660BucketSpaceReuseTest: correctly tagged slow, and it has no wall-clock assertion. The 1.25 page-growth bound is a heuristic, but the message shows pagesBefore, which helps if it flakes.
  • OrderByIndexNullScanTest: plan assertions on strings such as "FETCH FROM TYPE" are brittle, but that matches existing test style.

Nothing else in the diff caught my attention on security or performance. The cache changes keep the per-access cost O(1) and stay under the existing synchronized blocks.

Please fix the NOTNULL case before merging.

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