Lucene is using an inverted index technology, not a b-tree nor bitmap technology. It
particularly shines at indexing text documents. It's probably not the best technology
to index FKs, though it can do it.
At this stage, I would encourage you to write a small proof of concept, that's the
only way to see how much memory will be taken by the data structure and if Lucene
addresses your needed.
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