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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions docs/reference/query-languages/esql/esql-enrich-data.md
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* Enrichment data doesn't change frequently
* You can accept index-time overhead
* You are working with structured enrichment patterns
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I wasn't sure what this exactly means; maybe it's a bit too broad.

* You can accept having multiple matches combined into multi-values
* You can accept being limited to predefined match fields
* `ENRICH` has a simplified security model. There are no restirctions to specific enrich policies or document and field level security.
* You do not need fine-grained security: There are no restrictions to specific enrich policies or document and field level security.
* You want to match using ranges or spatial relations

### How the `ENRICH` command works [esql-how-enrich-works]

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* Your enrichment data changes frequently
* You want to avoid index-time processing
* You're working with regular indices
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This was not entirely true, as lookup indices are still not perfectly the same as regular indices.

* You need to preserve distinct matches
* You want SQL-like behavior, so that multiple matches result in multiple rows
* You need to match on any field in a lookup index
* You use document or field level security
* You want to restrict users to a specific lookup indices that they can you
* You want to restrict users to use only specific lookup indices
* You do not need to match using ranges or spatial relations

## How the `LOOKUP JOIN` command works [esql-how-lookup-join-works]

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To use `LOOKUP JOIN`, the following requirements must be met:

* **Compatible data types**: The join key and join field in the lookup index must have compatible data types. This means:
* The data types must either be identical or be internally represented as the same type in Elasticsearch's type system
* The data types must either be identical or be internally represented as the same type in {esql}
* Numeric types follow these compatibility rules:
* `short` and `byte` are compatible with `integer` (all represented as `int`)
* `float`, `half_float`, and `scaled_float` are compatible with `double` (all represented as `double`)
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The following are the current limitations with `LOOKUP JOIN`

* `LOOKUP JOIN` will be successful if the join field in the lookup index is a `KEYWORD` type. If the main index's join field is `TEXT` type, it must have an exact `.keyword` subfield that can be matched with the lookup index's `KEYWORD` field.
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This is already mentioned above and not a limitation per-se.

* Indices in [lookup](/reference/elasticsearch/index-settings/index-modules.md#index-mode-setting) mode are always single-sharded.
* Cross cluster search is unsupported. Both source and lookup indices must be local.
* Currently, only matching on equality is supported.
* `LOOKUP JOIN` can only use a single match field and a single index. Wildcards, aliases, datemath, and datastreams are not supported.
* The name of the match field in `LOOKUP JOIN lu_idx ON match_field` must match an existing field in the query. This may require renames or evals to achieve.
* The name of the match field in `LOOKUP JOIN lu_idx ON match_field` must match an existing field in the query. This may require `RENAME`s or `EVAL`s to achieve.
* The query will circuit break if there are too many matching documents in the lookup index, or if the documents are too large. More precisely, `LOOKUP JOIN` works in batches of, normally, about 10,000 rows; a large amount of heap space is needed if the matching documents from the lookup index for a batch are multiple megabytes or larger. This is roughly the same as for `ENRICH`.
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