It seems to only be used within the `physical-plan` create and adds quite a bit of API surface area: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aapache/datafusion%20JoinHashMapType&type=code I could not find any public usage of it searching GitHub. I pinged the original PR authors in https://github.com/apache/datafusion/commit/2156dde54623d26635d4388d161d94ac79918cdc#r173199638. cc @berkaysynnada @ozankabak