The JS metadata index served `ne`, `exists:false`, and `missing:true` by
materializing the ENTIRE id universe as an array of UUID strings, building a Set
of the excluded ids, and filtering — O(N) heap and two full passes on the
open-core path, on the most common shape (`deleted !== true`).
Compute the complement as a roaring-bitmap difference over the int-id universe
instead (`complementIds(excludeInts)` = universe \ exclude), converting only the
result back to UUIDs. The exclude set is small (the matching value), so this
avoids the full-corpus string materialization entirely. Behaviour is unchanged,
including the load-bearing soft-delete semantic that `field !== value` includes
entities with no such field. New focused tests pin `ne`/`exists:false`/
`missing:true`/`exists:true` result sets and that the complement reflects deletes.
Full gate green: unit 1520, integration 607.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
David Snelling
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