diff --git a/src/main/data-generator/lucene-query.yaml b/src/main/data-generator/lucene-query.yaml
index 78c2f8b..08c215e 100644
--- a/src/main/data-generator/lucene-query.yaml
+++ b/src/main/data-generator/lucene-query.yaml
@@ -196,3 +196,7 @@ versions:
         data:
           onlyTopScores: boolean
           computeScores: boolean
+      TotalHitsCount:
+        data:
+          value: long
+          exact: boolean
diff --git a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/client/LuceneIndex.java b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/client/LuceneIndex.java
index 086bc59..e313868 100644
--- a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/client/LuceneIndex.java
+++ b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/client/LuceneIndex.java
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package it.cavallium.dbengine.client;
 
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.ClientQueryParams;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.Query;
+import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.TotalHitsCount;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.database.Delta;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.database.LLSnapshottable;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.database.collections.ValueGetter;
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ public interface LuceneIndex<T, U> extends LLSnapshottable {
 	Mono<SearchResult<T, U>> searchWithTransformer(ClientQueryParams<SearchResultItem<T, U>> queryParams,
 			ValueTransformer<T, U> valueTransformer);
 
-	Mono<Long> count(@Nullable CompositeSnapshot snapshot, Query query);
+	Mono<TotalHitsCount> count(@Nullable CompositeSnapshot snapshot, Query query);
 
 	boolean isLowMemoryMode();
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/client/LuceneIndexImpl.java b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/client/LuceneIndexImpl.java
index 2805ee0..a9d82af 100644
--- a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/client/LuceneIndexImpl.java
+++ b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/client/LuceneIndexImpl.java
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package it.cavallium.dbengine.client;
 
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.ClientQueryParams;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.Query;
+import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.TotalHitsCount;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.database.LLKeyScore;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.database.LLLuceneIndex;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.database.LLSearchResultShard;
@@ -190,7 +191,7 @@ public class LuceneIndexImpl<T, U> implements LuceneIndex<T, U> {
 	}
 
 	@Override
-	public Mono<Long> count(@Nullable CompositeSnapshot snapshot, Query query) {
+	public Mono<TotalHitsCount> count(@Nullable CompositeSnapshot snapshot, Query query) {
 		return this
 				.search(ClientQueryParams.<SearchResultKey<T>>builder().snapshot(snapshot).query(query).limit(0).build())
 				.flatMap(tSearchResultKeys -> tSearchResultKeys.release().thenReturn(tSearchResultKeys.totalHitsCount()));
diff --git a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/client/SearchResult.java b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/client/SearchResult.java
index 225957b..6436102 100644
--- a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/client/SearchResult.java
+++ b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/client/SearchResult.java
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 package it.cavallium.dbengine.client;
 
+import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.TotalHitsCount;
 import reactor.core.publisher.Flux;
 import reactor.core.publisher.Mono;
 
-public record SearchResult<T, U>(Flux<SearchResultItem<T, U>> results, long totalHitsCount, Mono<Void> release) {
+public record SearchResult<T, U>(Flux<SearchResultItem<T, U>> results, TotalHitsCount totalHitsCount, Mono<Void> release) {
 
 	public static <T, U> SearchResult<T, U> empty() {
-		return new SearchResult<>(Flux.empty(), 0L, Mono.empty());
+		return new SearchResult<>(Flux.empty(), TotalHitsCount.of(0, true), Mono.empty());
 	}
 
 	public Flux<SearchResultItem<T, U>> resultsThenRelease() {
diff --git a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/client/SearchResultKeys.java b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/client/SearchResultKeys.java
index d0ce1f3..42b6649 100644
--- a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/client/SearchResultKeys.java
+++ b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/client/SearchResultKeys.java
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
 package it.cavallium.dbengine.client;
 
+import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.TotalHitsCount;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.database.collections.ValueGetter;
 import org.reactivestreams.Publisher;
 import reactor.core.publisher.Flux;
 import reactor.core.publisher.Mono;
 
 @SuppressWarnings("unused")
-public record SearchResultKeys<T>(Flux<SearchResultKey<T>> results, long totalHitsCount, Mono<Void> release) {
+public record SearchResultKeys<T>(Flux<SearchResultKey<T>> results, TotalHitsCount totalHitsCount, Mono<Void> release) {
 
 	public static <T, U> SearchResultKeys<T> empty() {
-		return new SearchResultKeys<>(Flux.empty(), 0L, Mono.empty());
+		return new SearchResultKeys<>(Flux.empty(), TotalHitsCount.of(0, true), Mono.empty());
 	}
 
 	public <U> SearchResult<T, U> withValues(ValueGetter<T, U> valuesGetter) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/database/LLLuceneIndex.java b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/database/LLLuceneIndex.java
index 0f38032..4180025 100644
--- a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/database/LLLuceneIndex.java
+++ b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/database/LLLuceneIndex.java
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.NoSort;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.Query;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.QueryParams;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.ScoreMode;
+import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.TotalHitsCount;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.lucene.LuceneUtils;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -51,11 +52,11 @@ public interface LLLuceneIndex extends LLSnapshottable {
 	 */
 	Mono<LLSearchResultShard> search(@Nullable LLSnapshot snapshot, QueryParams queryParams, String keyFieldName);
 
-	default Mono<Long> count(@Nullable LLSnapshot snapshot, Query query) {
+	default Mono<TotalHitsCount> count(@Nullable LLSnapshot snapshot, Query query) {
 		QueryParams params = QueryParams.of(query, 0, 0, Nullablefloat.empty(), NoSort.of(), ScoreMode.of(false, false));
 		return Mono.from(this.search(snapshot, params, null)
 				.flatMap(llSearchResultShard -> llSearchResultShard.release().thenReturn(llSearchResultShard.totalHitsCount()))
-				.defaultIfEmpty(0L));
+				.defaultIfEmpty(TotalHitsCount.of(0, true)));
 	}
 
 	boolean isLowMemoryMode();
diff --git a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/database/LLSearchResultShard.java b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/database/LLSearchResultShard.java
index 81e6349..c326fa4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/database/LLSearchResultShard.java
+++ b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/database/LLSearchResultShard.java
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package it.cavallium.dbengine.database;
 
+import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.TotalHitsCount;
 import reactor.core.publisher.Flux;
 import reactor.core.publisher.Mono;
 
-public record LLSearchResultShard (Flux<LLKeyScore> results, long totalHitsCount, Mono<Void> release) {}
+public record LLSearchResultShard (Flux<LLKeyScore> results, TotalHitsCount totalHitsCount, Mono<Void> release) {}
diff --git a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/database/disk/LLLocalKeyValueDatabase.java b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/database/disk/LLLocalKeyValueDatabase.java
index 6bf34be..4301984 100644
--- a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/database/disk/LLLocalKeyValueDatabase.java
+++ b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/database/disk/LLLocalKeyValueDatabase.java
@@ -469,8 +469,8 @@ public class LLLocalKeyValueDatabase implements LLKeyValueDatabase {
 
 	private ColumnFamilyHandle getCfh(byte[] columnName) throws RocksDBException {
 		ColumnFamilyHandle cfh = handles.get(Column.special(Column.toString(columnName)));
-		//noinspection RedundantIfStatement
 		if (databaseOptions.enableDbAssertionsWhenUsingAssertions()) {
+			//noinspection RedundantIfStatement
 			if (!enableColumnsBug) {
 				assert Arrays.equals(cfh.getName(), columnName);
 			}
diff --git a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/LuceneUtils.java b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/LuceneUtils.java
index 71a30e6..70a7487 100644
--- a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/LuceneUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/LuceneUtils.java
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.IndicizerSimilarities;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.BasicType;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.QueryParser;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.QueryParams;
+import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.TotalHitsCount;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.database.LLKeyScore;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.database.LLScoreMode;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.database.collections.DatabaseMapDictionary;
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ import org.apache.lucene.search.ScoreDoc;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Sort;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.TopDocs;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.TopFieldDocs;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.TotalHits;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.similarities.BooleanSimilarity;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.similarities.ClassicSimilarity;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.similarities.PerFieldSimilarityWrapper;
@@ -463,4 +465,17 @@ public class LuceneUtils {
 	public static int totalHitsThreshold() {
 		return 1;
 	}
+
+	public static TotalHitsCount convertTotalHitsCount(TotalHits totalHits) {
+		return switch (totalHits.relation) {
+			case EQUAL_TO -> TotalHitsCount.of(totalHits.value, true);
+			case GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO -> TotalHitsCount.of(totalHits.value, false);
+		};
+	}
+
+	public static TotalHitsCount sum(TotalHitsCount totalHitsCount, TotalHitsCount totalHitsCount1) {
+		return TotalHitsCount.of(totalHitsCount.value() + totalHitsCount1.value(),
+				totalHitsCount.exact() && totalHitsCount1.exact()
+		);
+	}
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/CountLuceneLocalSearcher.java b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/CountLuceneLocalSearcher.java
index 3ba49e9..e5766a4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/CountLuceneLocalSearcher.java
+++ b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/CountLuceneLocalSearcher.java
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package it.cavallium.dbengine.lucene.searcher;
 
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.QueryParser;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.QueryParams;
+import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.TotalHitsCount;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher;
 import reactor.core.publisher.Flux;
 import reactor.core.publisher.Mono;
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ public class CountLuceneLocalSearcher implements LuceneLocalSearcher {
 		//noinspection BlockingMethodInNonBlockingContext
 		return Mono
 				.fromCallable(() -> new LuceneSearchResult(
-						indexSearcher.count(queryParams.query()),
+						TotalHitsCount.of(indexSearcher.count(queryParams.query()), true),
 						Flux.empty(),
 						releaseIndexSearcher)
 				)
diff --git a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/CountLuceneMultiSearcher.java b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/CountLuceneMultiSearcher.java
index dd70c2a..d1e9330 100644
--- a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/CountLuceneMultiSearcher.java
+++ b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/CountLuceneMultiSearcher.java
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ package it.cavallium.dbengine.lucene.searcher;
 
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.QueryParser;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.QueryParams;
+import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.TotalHitsCount;
 import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentLinkedQueue;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
@@ -36,7 +38,7 @@ public class CountLuceneMultiSearcher implements LuceneMultiSearcher {
 
 						@Override
 						public Mono<LuceneSearchResult> collect(LocalQueryParams queryParams, String keyFieldName, Scheduler scheduler) {
-							return Mono.fromCallable(() -> new LuceneSearchResult(totalHits.get(), Flux.empty(), Mono.when(release)));
+							return Mono.fromCallable(() -> new LuceneSearchResult(TotalHitsCount.of(totalHits.get(), true), Flux.empty(), Mono.when(release)));
 						}
 					};
 				});
diff --git a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/LuceneSearchResult.java b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/LuceneSearchResult.java
index 0bc2504..a926e9f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/LuceneSearchResult.java
+++ b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/LuceneSearchResult.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package it.cavallium.dbengine.lucene.searcher;
 
+import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.TotalHitsCount;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.database.LLKeyScore;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.database.disk.LLLocalKeyValueDatabase;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -14,11 +15,11 @@ public final class LuceneSearchResult {
 	protected static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(LuceneSearchResult.class);
 
 	private volatile boolean releaseCalled;
-	private final long totalHitsCount;
+	private final TotalHitsCount totalHitsCount;
 	private final Flux<LLKeyScore> results;
 	private final Mono<Void> release;
 
-	public LuceneSearchResult(long totalHitsCount, Flux<LLKeyScore> results, Mono<Void> release) {
+	public LuceneSearchResult(TotalHitsCount totalHitsCount, Flux<LLKeyScore> results, Mono<Void> release) {
 		this.totalHitsCount = totalHitsCount;
 		this.results = results;
 		this.release = Mono.fromRunnable(() -> {
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ public final class LuceneSearchResult {
 		super.finalize();
 	}
 
-	public long totalHitsCount() {
+	public TotalHitsCount totalHitsCount() {
 		return totalHitsCount;
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/ScoredSimpleLuceneShardSearcher.java b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/ScoredSimpleLuceneShardSearcher.java
index 0d1e9aa..b3f721e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/ScoredSimpleLuceneShardSearcher.java
+++ b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/ScoredSimpleLuceneShardSearcher.java
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ class ScoredSimpleLuceneShardSearcher implements LuceneShardSearcher {
 								);
 					});
 
-					return new LuceneSearchResult(result.totalHits.value,
+					return new LuceneSearchResult(LuceneUtils.convertTotalHitsCount(result.totalHits),
 							firstPageHits
 									.concatWith(nextHits),
 									//.transform(flux -> LuceneUtils.filterTopDoc(flux, queryParams)),
diff --git a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/SimpleLuceneLocalSearcher.java b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/SimpleLuceneLocalSearcher.java
index 516c9f6..3d30412 100644
--- a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/SimpleLuceneLocalSearcher.java
+++ b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/SimpleLuceneLocalSearcher.java
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ public class SimpleLuceneLocalSearcher implements LuceneLocalSearcher {
 						combinedFlux = firstPageMono;
 					}
 
-					return new LuceneSearchResult(firstPageTopDocs.totalHits.value, combinedFlux,
+					return new LuceneSearchResult(LuceneUtils.convertTotalHitsCount(firstPageTopDocs.totalHits), combinedFlux,
 							//.transform(flux -> LuceneUtils.filterTopDoc(flux, queryParams)),
 							releaseIndexSearcher
 					);
diff --git a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/UnscoredPagedLuceneShardSearcher.java b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/UnscoredPagedLuceneShardSearcher.java
index f1f6e91..dda79d8 100644
--- a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/UnscoredPagedLuceneShardSearcher.java
+++ b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/UnscoredPagedLuceneShardSearcher.java
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ class UnscoredPagedLuceneShardSearcher implements LuceneShardSearcher {
 								);
 					});
 
-					return new LuceneSearchResult(result.totalHits.value, firstPageHits
+					return new LuceneSearchResult(LuceneUtils.convertTotalHitsCount(result.totalHits), firstPageHits
 							.concatWith(nextHits),
 							//.transform(flux -> LuceneUtils.filterTopDoc(flux, queryParams)),
 							release
diff --git a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/UnscoredUnsortedContinuousLuceneMultiSearcher.java b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/UnscoredUnsortedContinuousLuceneMultiSearcher.java
index 1d83b12..537c4e1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/UnscoredUnsortedContinuousLuceneMultiSearcher.java
+++ b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/UnscoredUnsortedContinuousLuceneMultiSearcher.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package it.cavallium.dbengine.lucene.searcher;
 
+import it.cavallium.dbengine.client.query.current.data.TotalHitsCount;
 import it.cavallium.dbengine.lucene.LuceneUtils;
 import it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.objects.ObjectArrayList;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -159,7 +160,7 @@ public class UnscoredUnsortedContinuousLuceneMultiSearcher implements LuceneMult
 														false
 												));
 
-										return new LuceneSearchResult(1, resultsFlux, release);
+										return new LuceneSearchResult(TotalHitsCount.of(0, false), resultsFlux, release);
 									});
 						}
 					};