I've had a quick troll through the source on GitHub and found the code for the GeoDistanceFilter but my familiarity with Lucene innards is poor. My main concern is with large geo datasets in ES and how performant that might be (or not). At a high level, how are the geospatial filters implemented…

Geospatial implementation

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Geospatial implementation