diff --git a/benchmarks/src/test/java/org/apache/druid/benchmark/indexing/StringDimensionIndexerBenchmark.java b/benchmarks/src/test/java/org/apache/druid/benchmark/indexing/StringDimensionIndexerBenchmark.java
index 487c7ac0b90..e9df76b39c8 100644
--- a/benchmarks/src/test/java/org/apache/druid/benchmark/indexing/StringDimensionIndexerBenchmark.java
+++ b/benchmarks/src/test/java/org/apache/druid/benchmark/indexing/StringDimensionIndexerBenchmark.java
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Param;
 import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Scope;
 import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Setup;
 import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.State;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Threads;
 import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Warmup;
 import org.openjdk.jmh.infra.Blackhole;
 
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ public class StringDimensionIndexerBenchmark
   @Param({"10000"})
   public int cardinality;
 
-  @Param({"8"})
+  @Param({"8", "40"})
   public int rowSize;
 
   @Setup
@@ -75,9 +76,20 @@ public class StringDimensionIndexerBenchmark
   @Benchmark
   @BenchmarkMode(Mode.AverageTime)
   @OutputTimeUnit(TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS)
+  @Threads(1)
   public void estimateEncodedKeyComponentSize(Blackhole blackhole)
   {
     long sz = indexer.estimateEncodedKeyComponentSize(exampleArray);
     blackhole.consume(sz);
   }
+
+  @Benchmark
+  @BenchmarkMode(Mode.AverageTime)
+  @OutputTimeUnit(TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS)
+  @Threads(2)
+  public void estimateEncodedKeyComponentSizeTwoThreads(Blackhole blackhole)
+  {
+    long sz = indexer.estimateEncodedKeyComponentSize(exampleArray);
+    blackhole.consume(sz);
+  }
 }
diff --git a/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/DictionaryEncodedColumnIndexer.java b/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/DictionaryEncodedColumnIndexer.java
index a2cbfb76e81..35a08969a23 100644
--- a/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/DictionaryEncodedColumnIndexer.java
+++ b/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/DictionaryEncodedColumnIndexer.java
@@ -45,17 +45,6 @@ public abstract class DictionaryEncodedColumnIndexer<KeyType, ActualType extends
   @Nullable
   protected SortedDimensionDictionary<ActualType> sortedLookup;
 
-  /**
-   * Creates a new DictionaryEncodedColumnIndexer with the default implementation
-   * of {@link DimensionDictionary}.
-   * <p>
-   * Using this constructor disables memory estimations of the dictionary size.
-   */
-  public DictionaryEncodedColumnIndexer()
-  {
-    this(new DimensionDictionary<>());
-  }
-
   /**
    * Creates a new DictionaryEncodedColumnIndexer.
    *
diff --git a/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/DimensionDictionary.java b/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/DimensionDictionary.java
index 17c2cc4ce1d..3c4d0a64f93 100644
--- a/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/DimensionDictionary.java
+++ b/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/DimensionDictionary.java
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ import it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.objects.Object2IntMap;
 import it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.objects.Object2IntOpenHashMap;
 
 import javax.annotation.Nullable;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Array;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
@@ -38,6 +40,7 @@ import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantReadWriteLock;
 public class DimensionDictionary<T extends Comparable<T>>
 {
   public static final int ABSENT_VALUE_ID = -1;
+  private final Class<T> cls;
 
   @Nullable
   private T minValue = null;
@@ -51,8 +54,9 @@ public class DimensionDictionary<T extends Comparable<T>>
   private final List<T> idToValue = new ArrayList<>();
   private final ReentrantReadWriteLock lock;
 
-  public DimensionDictionary()
+  public DimensionDictionary(Class<T> cls)
   {
+    this.cls = cls;
     this.lock = new ReentrantReadWriteLock();
     valueToId.defaultReturnValue(ABSENT_VALUE_ID);
   }
@@ -86,6 +90,22 @@ public class DimensionDictionary<T extends Comparable<T>>
     }
   }
 
+  public T[] getValues(int[] ids)
+  {
+    T[] values = (T[]) Array.newInstance(cls, ids.length);
+
+    lock.readLock().lock();
+    try {
+      for (int i = 0; i < ids.length; i++) {
+        values[i] = (ids[i] == idForNull) ? null : idToValue.get(ids[i]);
+      }
+      return values;
+    }
+    finally {
+      lock.readLock().unlock();
+    }
+  }
+
   public int size()
   {
     lock.readLock().lock();
diff --git a/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/StringDimensionDictionary.java b/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/StringDimensionDictionary.java
index 282924019d1..ccff9a2589b 100644
--- a/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/StringDimensionDictionary.java
+++ b/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/StringDimensionDictionary.java
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ public class StringDimensionDictionary extends DimensionDictionary<String>
    */
   public StringDimensionDictionary(boolean computeOnHeapSize)
   {
+    super(String.class);
     this.computeOnHeapSize = computeOnHeapSize;
   }
 
diff --git a/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/StringDimensionIndexer.java b/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/StringDimensionIndexer.java
index c88f22f477b..589ad84fee3 100644
--- a/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/StringDimensionIndexer.java
+++ b/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/StringDimensionIndexer.java
@@ -148,14 +148,15 @@ public class StringDimensionIndexer extends DictionaryEncodedColumnIndexer<int[]
    * Deprecated method. Use {@link #processRowValsToUnsortedEncodedKeyComponent(Object, boolean)}
    * and {@link EncodedKeyComponent#getEffectiveSizeBytes()}.
    */
-  public long estimateEncodedKeyComponentSize(int[] key)
+  public long estimateEncodedKeyComponentSize(int[] keys)
   {
     // string length is being accounted for each time they are referenced, based on dimension handler interface,
     // even though they are stored just once. It may overestimate the size by a bit, but we wanted to leave
     // more buffer to be safe
-    long estimatedSize = key.length * Integer.BYTES;
-    for (int element : key) {
-      String val = dimLookup.getValue(element);
+    long estimatedSize = keys.length * Integer.BYTES;
+
+    String[] vals = dimLookup.getValues(keys);
+    for (String val : vals) {
       if (val != null) {
         // According to https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-codetoheap/index.html
         // String has the following memory usuage...