diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-active/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/active/ActiveManager.java b/asterixdb/asterix-active/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/active/ActiveManager.java
index bb76204..2aebc59 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-active/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/active/ActiveManager.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-active/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/active/ActiveManager.java
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
 
     private void stopIfRunning(ActiveRuntimeId runtimeId, IActiveRuntime runtime)
             throws HyracksDataException, InterruptedException {
-        if (runtimes.remove(runtimeId) != null) {
+        if (runtimes.containsKey(runtimeId)) {
             runtime.stop();
         } else {
             LOGGER.info("Not stopping already stopped runtime " + runtimeId);
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/common/AsterixHyracksIntegrationUtil.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/common/AsterixHyracksIntegrationUtil.java
index acc3970..cc70d57 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/common/AsterixHyracksIntegrationUtil.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/common/AsterixHyracksIntegrationUtil.java
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 import java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributes;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.function.BiPredicate;
 import java.util.stream.Stream;
 
@@ -70,6 +71,7 @@
             joinPath(getProjectPath().toString(), "src", "test", "resources", "cc.conf");
     private static final String DEFAULT_STORAGE_PATH = joinPath("target", "io", "dir");
     private static String storagePath = DEFAULT_STORAGE_PATH;
+    private static final long RESULT_TTL = TimeUnit.MINUTES.toMillis(5);
 
     static {
         System.setProperty("java.util.logging.manager", org.apache.logging.log4j.jul.LogManager.class.getName());
@@ -198,7 +200,7 @@
         ccConfig.setClientListenAddress(Inet4Address.getLoopbackAddress().getHostAddress());
         ccConfig.setClientListenPort(DEFAULT_HYRACKS_CC_CLIENT_PORT);
         ccConfig.setClusterListenPort(DEFAULT_HYRACKS_CC_CLUSTER_PORT);
-        ccConfig.setResultTTL(120000L);
+        ccConfig.setResultTTL(RESULT_TTL);
         ccConfig.setResultSweepThreshold(1000L);
         ccConfig.setEnforceFrameWriterProtocol(true);
         configManager.set(ControllerConfig.Option.DEFAULT_DIR, joinPath(getDefaultStoragePath(), "asterixdb"));
@@ -217,7 +219,7 @@
         ncConfig.setDataListenAddress(Inet4Address.getLoopbackAddress().getHostAddress());
         ncConfig.setResultListenAddress(Inet4Address.getLoopbackAddress().getHostAddress());
         ncConfig.setMessagingListenAddress(Inet4Address.getLoopbackAddress().getHostAddress());
-        ncConfig.setResultTTL(120000L);
+        ncConfig.setResultTTL(RESULT_TTL);
         ncConfig.setResultSweepThreshold(1000L);
         ncConfig.setVirtualNC();
         configManager.set(ControllerConfig.Option.DEFAULT_DIR, joinPath(getDefaultStoragePath(), "asterixdb", ncName));
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/tuples/ConcatenatingTupleReference.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/tuples/ConcatenatingTupleReference.java
index 18de540..c635411 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/tuples/ConcatenatingTupleReference.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/tuples/ConcatenatingTupleReference.java
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@
 
 package org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.tuples;
 
-import java.util.Arrays;
-
 import org.apache.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.accessors.ITupleReference;
 
 /**
@@ -96,14 +94,17 @@
         return tuples[tupleIndex].getFieldLength(fieldIndex);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Right now this class is only used by inverted index, and only contains 2 tuples.
+     * As a result, sequential search would be more efficient than binary search
+     */
     private int getTupleIndex(int fIdx) {
-        int tupleIndex = Arrays.binarySearch(fieldCounts, 0, numTuples - 1, fIdx);
-        if (tupleIndex < 0) {
-            tupleIndex = -tupleIndex - 1;
-        } else {
-            ++tupleIndex;
+        for (int i = 0; i < numTuples; i++) {
+            if (fIdx < fieldCounts[i]) {
+                return i;
+            }
         }
-        return tupleIndex;
+        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal field index " + fIdx);
     }
 
     private int getFieldIndex(int tupleIndex, int fIdx) {
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/LSMIndexSearchCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/LSMIndexSearchCursor.java
index 445a005..fb1fa63 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/LSMIndexSearchCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/LSMIndexSearchCursor.java
@@ -125,7 +125,6 @@
                     rangeCursors[i].close();
                 }
             }
-            rangeCursors = null;
         } finally {
             if (lsmHarness != null) {
                 lsmHarness.endSearch(opCtx);
@@ -249,7 +248,7 @@
 
     public class PriorityQueueElement {
         private ITupleReference tuple;
-        private int cursorIndex;
+        private final int cursorIndex;
 
         public PriorityQueueElement(int cursorIndex) {
             tuple = null;
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/dataflow/LSMInvertedIndexLocalResource.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/dataflow/LSMInvertedIndexLocalResource.java
index 4eb7728..f2fb9af 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/dataflow/LSMInvertedIndexLocalResource.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/dataflow/LSMInvertedIndexLocalResource.java
@@ -95,14 +95,14 @@
                     opTrackerProvider.getOperationTracker(serviceCtx, this), ioScheduler, ioOpCallbackFactory,
                     invertedIndexFields, filterTypeTraits, filterCmpFactories, filterFields,
                     filterFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, invertedIndexFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, durable,
-                    metadataPageManagerFactory);
+                    metadataPageManagerFactory, serviceCtx.getTracer());
         } else {
             return InvertedIndexUtils.createLSMInvertedIndex(ioManager, virtualBufferCaches, typeTraits, cmpFactories,
                     tokenTypeTraits, tokenCmpFactories, tokenizerFactory, bufferCache, file.getAbsolutePath(),
                     bloomFilterFalsePositiveRate, mergePolicy, opTrackerProvider.getOperationTracker(serviceCtx, this),
                     ioScheduler, ioOpCallbackFactory, invertedIndexFields, filterTypeTraits, filterCmpFactories,
                     filterFields, filterFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, invertedIndexFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, durable,
-                    metadataPageManagerFactory);
+                    metadataPageManagerFactory, serviceCtx.getTracer());
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndex.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndex.java
index 5fda514..e46c24a 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndex.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndex.java
@@ -100,10 +100,10 @@
             IBinaryTokenizerFactory tokenizerFactory, ILSMMergePolicy mergePolicy, ILSMOperationTracker opTracker,
             ILSMIOOperationScheduler ioScheduler, ILSMIOOperationCallbackFactory ioOpCallbackFactory,
             int[] invertedIndexFields, int[] filterFields, int[] filterFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps,
-            int[] invertedIndexFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, boolean durable) throws HyracksDataException {
+            int[] invertedIndexFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, boolean durable, ITracer tracer) throws HyracksDataException {
         super(ioManager, virtualBufferCaches, diskBufferCache, fileManager, bloomFilterFalsePositiveRate, mergePolicy,
                 opTracker, ioScheduler, ioOpCallbackFactory, componentFactory, componentFactory, filterFrameFactory,
-                filterManager, filterFields, durable, filterHelper, invertedIndexFields, ITracer.NONE);
+                filterManager, filterFields, durable, filterHelper, invertedIndexFields, tracer);
         this.tokenizerFactory = tokenizerFactory;
         this.invListTypeTraits = invListTypeTraits;
         this.invListCmpFactories = invListCmpFactories;
@@ -349,65 +349,65 @@
         LSMInvertedIndexMergeOperation mergeOp = (LSMInvertedIndexMergeOperation) operation;
         RangePredicate mergePred = new RangePredicate(null, null, true, true, null, null);
         IIndexCursor cursor = mergeOp.getCursor();
-        try {
-            ILSMIndexOperationContext opCtx = ((LSMIndexSearchCursor) cursor).getOpCtx();
-            // Scan diskInvertedIndexes ignoring the memoryInvertedIndex.
-            // Create an inverted index instance.
-            ILSMDiskComponent component = createDiskComponent(componentFactory, mergeOp.getTarget(),
-                    mergeOp.getDeletedKeysBTreeTarget(), mergeOp.getBloomFilterTarget(), true);
-            ILSMDiskComponentBulkLoader componentBulkLoader;
-            // In case we must keep the deleted-keys BTrees, then they must be merged *before* merging the inverted
-            // indexes so that lsmHarness.endSearch() is called once when the inverted indexes have been merged.
-            if (mergeOp.getMergingComponents().get(mergeOp.getMergingComponents().size() - 1) != diskComponents
-                    .get(diskComponents.size() - 1)) {
-                // Keep the deleted tuples since the oldest disk component is not included in the merge operation
-                LSMInvertedIndexDeletedKeysBTreeMergeCursor btreeCursor =
-                        new LSMInvertedIndexDeletedKeysBTreeMergeCursor(opCtx);
-                try {
-                    long numElements = 0L;
-                    for (int i = 0; i < mergeOp.getMergingComponents().size(); ++i) {
-                        numElements += ((LSMInvertedIndexDiskComponent) mergeOp.getMergingComponents().get(i))
-                                .getBloomFilter().getNumElements();
-                    }
-                    componentBulkLoader = component.createBulkLoader(1.0f, false, numElements, false, false, false);
-                    loadDeleteTuples(opCtx, btreeCursor, mergePred, componentBulkLoader);
-                } finally {
-                    btreeCursor.destroy();
-                }
-            } else {
-                componentBulkLoader = component.createBulkLoader(1.0f, false, 0L, false, false, false);
-            }
-            search(opCtx, cursor, mergePred);
+        ILSMIndexOperationContext opCtx = ((LSMIndexSearchCursor) cursor).getOpCtx();
+        // Scan diskInvertedIndexes ignoring the memoryInvertedIndex.
+        // Create an inverted index instance.
+        ILSMDiskComponent component = createDiskComponent(componentFactory, mergeOp.getTarget(),
+                mergeOp.getDeletedKeysBTreeTarget(), mergeOp.getBloomFilterTarget(), true);
+        ILSMDiskComponentBulkLoader componentBulkLoader;
+        // In case we must keep the deleted-keys BTrees, then they must be merged *before* merging the inverted
+        // indexes so that lsmHarness.endSearch() is called once when the inverted indexes have been merged.
+        if (mergeOp.getMergingComponents().get(mergeOp.getMergingComponents().size() - 1) != diskComponents
+                .get(diskComponents.size() - 1)) {
+            // Keep the deleted tuples since the oldest disk component is not included in the merge operation
+            LSMInvertedIndexDeletedKeysBTreeMergeCursor btreeCursor =
+                    new LSMInvertedIndexDeletedKeysBTreeMergeCursor(opCtx);
             try {
-                while (cursor.hasNext()) {
-                    cursor.next();
-                    ITupleReference tuple = cursor.getTuple();
-                    componentBulkLoader.add(tuple);
-                }
-            } finally {
-                cursor.close();
-            }
-            if (component.getLSMComponentFilter() != null) {
-                List<ITupleReference> filterTuples = new ArrayList<>();
+                long numElements = 0L;
                 for (int i = 0; i < mergeOp.getMergingComponents().size(); ++i) {
-                    ITupleReference min = mergeOp.getMergingComponents().get(i).getLSMComponentFilter().getMinTuple();
-                    ITupleReference max = mergeOp.getMergingComponents().get(i).getLSMComponentFilter().getMaxTuple();
-                    if (min != null) {
-                        filterTuples.add(min);
-                    }
-                    if (max != null) {
-                        filterTuples.add(max);
-                    }
+                    numElements += ((LSMInvertedIndexDiskComponent) mergeOp.getMergingComponents().get(i))
+                            .getBloomFilter().getNumElements();
                 }
-                getFilterManager().updateFilter(component.getLSMComponentFilter(), filterTuples,
-                        NoOpOperationCallback.INSTANCE);
-                getFilterManager().writeFilter(component.getLSMComponentFilter(), component.getMetadataHolder());
+                componentBulkLoader = component.createBulkLoader(1.0f, false, numElements, false, false, false);
+                loadDeleteTuples(opCtx, btreeCursor, mergePred, componentBulkLoader);
+            } finally {
+                btreeCursor.destroy();
             }
-            componentBulkLoader.end();
-            return component;
-        } finally {
-            cursor.close();
+        } else {
+            componentBulkLoader = component.createBulkLoader(1.0f, false, 0L, false, false, false);
         }
+        search(opCtx, cursor, mergePred);
+        try {
+            while (cursor.hasNext()) {
+                cursor.next();
+                componentBulkLoader.add(cursor.getTuple());
+            }
+        } finally {
+            try {
+                cursor.close();
+            } finally {
+                cursor.destroy();
+            }
+        }
+        if (component.getLSMComponentFilter() != null) {
+            List<ITupleReference> filterTuples = new ArrayList<>();
+            for (int i = 0; i < mergeOp.getMergingComponents().size(); ++i) {
+                ITupleReference min = mergeOp.getMergingComponents().get(i).getLSMComponentFilter().getMinTuple();
+                ITupleReference max = mergeOp.getMergingComponents().get(i).getLSMComponentFilter().getMaxTuple();
+                if (min != null) {
+                    filterTuples.add(min);
+                }
+                if (max != null) {
+                    filterTuples.add(max);
+                }
+            }
+            getFilterManager().updateFilter(component.getLSMComponentFilter(), filterTuples,
+                    NoOpOperationCallback.INSTANCE);
+            getFilterManager().writeFilter(component.getLSMComponentFilter(), component.getMetadataHolder());
+        }
+        componentBulkLoader.end();
+
+        return component;
     }
 
     private void loadDeleteTuples(ILSMIndexOperationContext opCtx,
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndexDeletedKeysBTreeMergeCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndexDeletedKeysBTreeMergeCursor.java
index f1f5241..faa90eb 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndexDeletedKeysBTreeMergeCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndexDeletedKeysBTreeMergeCursor.java
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@
         ArrayList<IIndexAccessor> btreeAccessors = lsmInitialState.getDeletedKeysBTreeAccessors();
         for (int i = 0; i < numBTrees; i++) {
             rangeCursors[i] = btreeAccessors.get(i).createSearchCursor(false);
-            btreeAccessors.get(i).search(rangeCursors[i], btreePredicate);
         }
         IndexCursorUtils.open(btreeAccessors, rangeCursors, btreePredicate);
         try {
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndexRangeSearchCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndexRangeSearchCursor.java
index 12dc23f..020b788 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndexRangeSearchCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndexRangeSearchCursor.java
@@ -98,10 +98,9 @@
         keysOnlyTuple.reset(checkElement.getTuple());
         int end = checkElement.getCursorIndex();
         for (int i = 0; i < end; i++) {
-            if (bloomFilters[i] != null && bloomFilters[i].contains(keysOnlyTuple, hashes)) {
+            if (bloomFilters[i] != null && !bloomFilters[i].contains(keysOnlyTuple, hashes)) {
                 continue;
             }
-            deletedKeysBTreeCursors[i].close();
             deletedKeysBTreeAccessors.get(i).search(deletedKeysBTreeCursors[i], keySearchPred);
             try {
                 if (deletedKeysBTreeCursors[i].hasNext()) {
@@ -114,4 +113,31 @@
         return false;
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void doClose() throws HyracksDataException {
+        try {
+            super.doClose();
+        } finally {
+            if (deletedKeysBTreeCursors != null) {
+                for (int i = 0; i < deletedKeysBTreeCursors.length; i++) {
+                    deletedKeysBTreeCursors[i].close();
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void doDestroy() throws HyracksDataException {
+        try {
+            super.doDestroy();
+        } finally {
+            if (deletedKeysBTreeCursors != null) {
+                for (int i = 0; i < deletedKeysBTreeCursors.length; i++) {
+                    deletedKeysBTreeCursors[i].destroy();
+                }
+                deletedKeysBTreeCursors = null;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/PartitionedLSMInvertedIndex.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/PartitionedLSMInvertedIndex.java
index d7482a8..604d374 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/PartitionedLSMInvertedIndex.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/PartitionedLSMInvertedIndex.java
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.invertedindex.tokenizers.IBinaryTokenizerFactory;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.invertedindex.util.InvertedIndexUtils;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.buffercache.IBufferCache;
+import org.apache.hyracks.util.trace.ITracer;
 
 public class PartitionedLSMInvertedIndex extends LSMInvertedIndex {
 
@@ -52,12 +53,12 @@
             IBinaryTokenizerFactory tokenizerFactory, ILSMMergePolicy mergePolicy, ILSMOperationTracker opTracker,
             ILSMIOOperationScheduler ioScheduler, ILSMIOOperationCallbackFactory ioOpCallbackFactory,
             int[] invertedIndexFields, int[] filterFields, int[] filterFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps,
-            int[] invertedIndexFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, boolean durable) throws HyracksDataException {
+            int[] invertedIndexFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, boolean durable, ITracer tracer) throws HyracksDataException {
         super(ioManager, virtualBufferCaches, componentFactory, filterHelper, filterFrameFactory, filterManager,
                 bloomFilterFalsePositiveRate, diskBufferCache, fileManager, invListTypeTraits, invListCmpFactories,
                 tokenTypeTraits, tokenCmpFactories, tokenizerFactory, mergePolicy, opTracker, ioScheduler,
                 ioOpCallbackFactory, invertedIndexFields, filterFields, filterFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps,
-                invertedIndexFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, durable);
+                invertedIndexFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, durable, tracer);
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/FixedSizeElementInvertedListCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/FixedSizeElementInvertedListCursor.java
index da3f079..7f3d12f 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/FixedSizeElementInvertedListCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/FixedSizeElementInvertedListCursor.java
@@ -220,9 +220,11 @@
             // Assumption: processing inverted list takes time; so, we don't want to keep them on the buffer cache.
             // Rather, we utilize the assigned working memory (buffers).
             tmpBuffer = page.getBuffer();
-            tmpBuffer.rewind();
-            buffers.get(currentBufferIdx).rewind();
-            buffers.get(currentBufferIdx).put(tmpBuffer);
+
+            // Copies the entire content of the page to the current buffer in the working memory.
+            System.arraycopy(tmpBuffer.array(), 0, buffers.get(currentBufferIdx).array(), 0,
+                    buffers.get(currentBufferIdx).capacity());
+            buffers.get(currentBufferIdx).position(buffers.get(currentBufferIdx).capacity());
 
             currentBufferIdx++;
             bufferCache.unpin(page);
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/FixedSizeElementInvertedListScanCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/FixedSizeElementInvertedListScanCursor.java
index b033b99..2401c67 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/FixedSizeElementInvertedListScanCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/FixedSizeElementInvertedListScanCursor.java
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
     protected ICachedPage page;
 
     protected boolean pinned;
+    protected int pinnedPageId = -1;
 
     public FixedSizeElementInvertedListScanCursor(IBufferCache bufferCache, int fileId, ITypeTraits[] invListFields)
             throws HyracksDataException {
@@ -103,14 +104,18 @@
      */
     @Override
     public void loadPages() throws HyracksDataException {
-        if (pinned) {
-            unloadPages();
-        }
         if (currentPageId == endPageId) {
+            // inverted list exhausted, return
             return;
         }
         currentPageId++;
+        if (pinned && pinnedPageId == currentPageId) {
+            // already pinned, return
+            return;
+        }
+        unloadPages();
         page = bufferCache.pin(BufferedFileHandle.getDiskPageId(fileId, currentPageId), false);
+        pinnedPageId = currentPageId;
         pinned = true;
     }
 
@@ -134,7 +139,6 @@
         // Deducts 1 since the startPage would be set to bufferCurrentPageId + 1 in loadPages().
         this.currentPageId = startPageId - 1;
         this.numPages = endPageId - startPageId + 1;
-        this.pinned = false;
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -158,16 +162,14 @@
 
     @Override
     public void doClose() throws HyracksDataException {
-        if (pinned) {
-            unloadPages();
-        }
+        // No op
+        // We allow the inverted list cursor to hold at most one page to avoid
+        // unnecessary pins
     }
 
     @Override
     public void doDestroy() throws HyracksDataException {
-        if (pinned) {
-            unloadPages();
-        }
+        unloadPages();
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndex.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndex.java
index 2f4f1d6..14ebe46 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndex.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndex.java
@@ -204,9 +204,9 @@
         try {
             if (ctx.getBtreeCursor().hasNext()) {
                 ctx.getBtreeCursor().next();
-                openInvertedListCursor(ctx.getBtreeCursor().getTuple(), listCursor);
+                openInvertedListCursor(ctx.getBtreeCursor().getTuple(), listCursor, ctx);
             } else {
-                LSMInvertedIndexSearchCursorInitialState initState = new LSMInvertedIndexSearchCursorInitialState();
+                LSMInvertedIndexSearchCursorInitialState initState = ctx.getCursorInitialState();
                 initState.setInvertedListInfo(0, 0, 0, 0);
                 listCursor.open(initState, null);
             }
@@ -215,8 +215,8 @@
         }
     }
 
-    public void openInvertedListCursor(ITupleReference btreeTuple, InvertedListCursor listCursor)
-            throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void openInvertedListCursor(ITupleReference btreeTuple, InvertedListCursor listCursor,
+            OnDiskInvertedIndexOpContext opCtx) throws HyracksDataException {
         int startPageId = IntegerPointable.getInteger(btreeTuple.getFieldData(invListStartPageIdField),
                 btreeTuple.getFieldStart(invListStartPageIdField));
         int endPageId = IntegerPointable.getInteger(btreeTuple.getFieldData(invListEndPageIdField),
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@
                 btreeTuple.getFieldStart(invListStartOffField));
         int numElements = IntegerPointable.getInteger(btreeTuple.getFieldData(invListNumElementsField),
                 btreeTuple.getFieldStart(invListNumElementsField));
-        LSMInvertedIndexSearchCursorInitialState initState = new LSMInvertedIndexSearchCursorInitialState();
+        LSMInvertedIndexSearchCursorInitialState initState = opCtx.getCursorInitialState();
         initState.setInvertedListInfo(startPageId, endPageId, startOff, numElements);
         listCursor.open(initState, null);
     }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexOpContext.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexOpContext.java
index 267cc79..81bc46b9 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexOpContext.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexOpContext.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.IIndexOperationContext;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.NoOpIndexAccessParameters;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.ophelpers.IndexOperation;
+import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.invertedindex.impls.LSMInvertedIndexSearchCursorInitialState;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexAccessor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.MultiComparator;
@@ -32,12 +33,13 @@
 public class OnDiskInvertedIndexOpContext implements IIndexOperationContext {
 
     private final RangePredicate btreePred = new RangePredicate(null, null, true, true, null, null);
-    private IIndexAccessor btreeAccessor;
-    private IIndexCursor btreeCursor;
-    private MultiComparator searchCmp;
+    private final IIndexAccessor btreeAccessor;
+    private final IIndexCursor btreeCursor;
+    private final MultiComparator searchCmp;
     // For prefix search on partitioned indexes.
     private MultiComparator prefixSearchCmp;
     private boolean destroyed = false;
+    private LSMInvertedIndexSearchCursorInitialState cursorInitialState;
 
     public OnDiskInvertedIndexOpContext(BTree btree) throws HyracksDataException {
         // TODO: Ignore opcallbacks for now.
@@ -96,4 +98,11 @@
             btreeCursor.destroy();
         }
     }
+
+    public LSMInvertedIndexSearchCursorInitialState getCursorInitialState() {
+        if (cursorInitialState == null) {
+            cursorInitialState = new LSMInvertedIndexSearchCursorInitialState();
+        }
+        return cursorInitialState;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexRangeSearchCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexRangeSearchCursor.java
index d9e7d34..9d99c9e 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexRangeSearchCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexRangeSearchCursor.java
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.NoOpIndexAccessParameters;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.tuples.ConcatenatingTupleReference;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.tuples.PermutingTupleReference;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.invertedindex.api.IInPlaceInvertedIndex;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.invertedindex.api.InvertedListCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.EnforcedIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.ICursorInitialState;
@@ -41,7 +40,7 @@
 
     private final BTree btree;
     private final IIndexAccessor btreeAccessor;
-    private final IInPlaceInvertedIndex invIndex;
+    private final OnDiskInvertedIndex invIndex;
     private final IIndexOperationContext opCtx;
     private final InvertedListCursor invListRangeSearchCursor;
     private boolean isInvListCursorOpen;
@@ -50,11 +49,11 @@
     private RangePredicate btreePred;
 
     private final PermutingTupleReference tokenTuple;
-    private ConcatenatingTupleReference concatTuple;
+    private final ConcatenatingTupleReference concatTuple;
 
-    public OnDiskInvertedIndexRangeSearchCursor(IInPlaceInvertedIndex invIndex, IIndexOperationContext opCtx)
+    public OnDiskInvertedIndexRangeSearchCursor(OnDiskInvertedIndex invIndex, IIndexOperationContext opCtx)
             throws HyracksDataException {
-        this.btree = ((OnDiskInvertedIndex) invIndex).getBTree();
+        this.btree = invIndex.getBTree();
         this.btreeAccessor = btree.createAccessor(NoOpIndexAccessParameters.INSTANCE);
         this.invIndex = invIndex;
         this.opCtx = opCtx;
@@ -87,11 +86,7 @@
             return true;
         }
         // The current inverted-list-range-search cursor is exhausted.
-        try {
-            invListRangeSearchCursor.unloadPages();
-        } finally {
-            invListRangeSearchCursor.close();
-        }
+        invListRangeSearchCursor.close();
         isInvListCursorOpen = false;
         openInvListRangeSearchCursor();
         return isInvListCursorOpen;
@@ -109,14 +104,8 @@
     @Override
     public void doDestroy() throws HyracksDataException {
         try {
-            if (isInvListCursorOpen) {
-                try {
-                    invListRangeSearchCursor.unloadPages();
-                } finally {
-                    isInvListCursorOpen = false;
-                    invListRangeSearchCursor.destroy();
-                }
-            }
+            invListRangeSearchCursor.destroy();
+            isInvListCursorOpen = false;
         } finally {
             btreeCursor.destroy();
         }
@@ -125,14 +114,8 @@
     @Override
     public void doClose() throws HyracksDataException {
         try {
-            if (isInvListCursorOpen) {
-                try {
-                    invListRangeSearchCursor.unloadPages();
-                } finally {
-                    invListRangeSearchCursor.close();
-                }
-                isInvListCursorOpen = false;
-            }
+            invListRangeSearchCursor.close();
+            isInvListCursorOpen = false;
         } finally {
             btreeCursor.close();
         }
@@ -148,7 +131,8 @@
         if (btreeCursor.hasNext()) {
             btreeCursor.next();
             tokenTuple.reset(btreeCursor.getTuple());
-            invIndex.openInvertedListCursor(invListRangeSearchCursor, tokenTuple, opCtx);
+            invIndex.openInvertedListCursor(btreeCursor.getTuple(), invListRangeSearchCursor,
+                    (OnDiskInvertedIndexOpContext) opCtx);
             invListRangeSearchCursor.prepareLoadPages();
             invListRangeSearchCursor.loadPages();
             concatTuple.reset();
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/PartitionedOnDiskInvertedIndex.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/PartitionedOnDiskInvertedIndex.java
index eff4f5a..8c6b386 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/PartitionedOnDiskInvertedIndex.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/PartitionedOnDiskInvertedIndex.java
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
                 short numTokens = ShortPointable.getShort(btreeTuple.getFieldData(PARTITIONING_NUM_TOKENS_FIELD),
                         btreeTuple.getFieldStart(PARTITIONING_NUM_TOKENS_FIELD));
                 InvertedListCursor invListCursor = partSearcher.getCachedInvertedListCursor();
-                openInvertedListCursor(btreeTuple, invListCursor);
+                openInvertedListCursor(btreeTuple, invListCursor, ctx);
                 invListPartitions.addInvertedListCursor(invListCursor, numTokens);
                 tokenExists = true;
             }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/util/InvertedIndexUtils.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/util/InvertedIndexUtils.java
index ba54ed4..1e812b4 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/util/InvertedIndexUtils.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/util/InvertedIndexUtils.java
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.invertedindex.ondisk.PartitionedOnDiskInvertedIndexFactory;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.invertedindex.tokenizers.IBinaryTokenizerFactory;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.buffercache.IBufferCache;
+import org.apache.hyracks.util.trace.ITracer;
 
 public class InvertedIndexUtils {
 
@@ -129,7 +130,7 @@
             ILSMIOOperationCallbackFactory ioOpCallbackFactory, int[] invertedIndexFields,
             ITypeTraits[] filterTypeTraits, IBinaryComparatorFactory[] filterCmpFactories, int[] filterFields,
             int[] filterFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, int[] invertedIndexFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, boolean durable,
-            IMetadataPageManagerFactory pageManagerFactory) throws HyracksDataException {
+            IMetadataPageManagerFactory pageManagerFactory, ITracer tracer) throws HyracksDataException {
 
         BTreeFactory deletedKeysBTreeFactory = createDeletedKeysBTreeFactory(ioManager, invListTypeTraits,
                 invListCmpFactories, diskBufferCache, pageManagerFactory);
@@ -166,7 +167,7 @@
                 filterManager, bloomFilterFalsePositiveRate, diskBufferCache, fileManager, invListTypeTraits,
                 invListCmpFactories, tokenTypeTraits, tokenCmpFactories, tokenizerFactory, mergePolicy, opTracker,
                 ioScheduler, ioOpCallbackFactory, invertedIndexFields, filterFields, filterFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps,
-                invertedIndexFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, durable);
+                invertedIndexFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, durable, tracer);
     }
 
     public static PartitionedLSMInvertedIndex createPartitionedLSMInvertedIndex(IIOManager ioManager,
@@ -178,7 +179,7 @@
             ILSMIOOperationCallbackFactory ioOpCallbackFactory, int[] invertedIndexFields,
             ITypeTraits[] filterTypeTraits, IBinaryComparatorFactory[] filterCmpFactories, int[] filterFields,
             int[] filterFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, int[] invertedIndexFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, boolean durable,
-            IPageManagerFactory pageManagerFactory) throws HyracksDataException {
+            IPageManagerFactory pageManagerFactory, ITracer tracer) throws HyracksDataException {
 
         BTreeFactory deletedKeysBTreeFactory = createDeletedKeysBTreeFactory(ioManager, invListTypeTraits,
                 invListCmpFactories, diskBufferCache, pageManagerFactory);
@@ -215,6 +216,6 @@
                 filterFrameFactory, filterManager, bloomFilterFalsePositiveRate, diskBufferCache, fileManager,
                 invListTypeTraits, invListCmpFactories, tokenTypeTraits, tokenCmpFactories, tokenizerFactory,
                 mergePolicy, opTracker, ioScheduler, ioOpCallbackFactory, invertedIndexFields, filterFields,
-                filterFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, invertedIndexFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, durable);
+                filterFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, invertedIndexFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, durable, tracer);
     }
 }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/util/LSMInvertedIndexTestContext.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/util/LSMInvertedIndexTestContext.java
index ae8713c..2435cc4 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/util/LSMInvertedIndexTestContext.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/util/LSMInvertedIndexTestContext.java
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.invertedindex.util.LSMInvertedIndexTestUtils.HyracksTaskTestContext;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndex;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexAccessParameters;
+import org.apache.hyracks.util.trace.ITraceCategoryRegistry;
+import org.apache.hyracks.util.trace.TraceCategoryRegistry;
+import org.apache.hyracks.util.trace.Tracer;
 
 @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
 public class LSMInvertedIndexTestContext extends OrderedIndexTestContext {
@@ -184,7 +187,9 @@
                         harness.getMergePolicy(), harness.getOperationTracker(), harness.getIOScheduler(),
                         harness.getIOOperationCallbackFactory(), invertedIndexFields, filterTypeTraits,
                         filterCmpFactories, filterFields, filterFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps,
-                        invertedIndexFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, true, harness.getMetadataPageManagerFactory());
+                        invertedIndexFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, true, harness.getMetadataPageManagerFactory(),
+                        new Tracer(LSMInvertedIndexTestContext.class.getSimpleName(),
+                                ITraceCategoryRegistry.CATEGORIES_ALL, new TraceCategoryRegistry()));
                 break;
             }
             case PARTITIONED_LSM: {
@@ -195,7 +200,9 @@
                         harness.getOperationTracker(), harness.getIOScheduler(),
                         harness.getIOOperationCallbackFactory(), invertedIndexFields, filterTypeTraits,
                         filterCmpFactories, filterFields, filterFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps,
-                        invertedIndexFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, true, harness.getMetadataPageManagerFactory());
+                        invertedIndexFieldsForNonBulkLoadOps, true, harness.getMetadataPageManagerFactory(),
+                        new Tracer(LSMInvertedIndexTestContext.class.getSimpleName(),
+                                ITraceCategoryRegistry.CATEGORIES_ALL, new TraceCategoryRegistry()));
                 break;
             }
             default: {