A system for performing a hybrid in-memory faceted search for one or more digital objects, comprising: a media platform comprising one or more processors configured to: store an index for a data set generated using one or more indexing processes, wherein the index includes a mapping of values to identifiers for each digital object in the data set; receive an update for the index; store the index update with a timestamp independent from the stored index; and in response to a request for the stored index, apply the index updates to the index.