diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 27fcb1b59..6e4967028 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ query-grammar = { version = "0.25.0", path = "./query-grammar", package = "tanti
 tantivy-bitpacker = { version = "0.9", path = "./bitpacker" }
 common = { version = "0.10", path = "./common/", package = "tantivy-common" }
 tokenizer-api = { version = "0.6", path = "./tokenizer-api", package = "tantivy-tokenizer-api" }
-sketches-ddsketch = { version = "0.3.0", features = ["use_serde"] }
+sketches-ddsketch = { git = "https://github.com/quickwit-oss/rust-sketches-ddsketch.git", rev = "555caf1", features = ["use_serde"] }
 datasketches = "0.2.0"
 futures-util = { version = "0.3.28", optional = true }
 futures-channel = { version = "0.3.28", optional = true }
diff --git a/src/aggregation/metric/percentiles.rs b/src/aggregation/metric/percentiles.rs
index ff9de45f1..3cca86996 100644
--- a/src/aggregation/metric/percentiles.rs
+++ b/src/aggregation/metric/percentiles.rs
@@ -222,6 +222,12 @@ impl PercentilesCollector {
         self.sketch.add(val);
     }
 
+    /// Encode the underlying DDSketch to Java-compatible binary format
+    /// for cross-language serialization with Java consumers.
+    pub fn to_sketch_bytes(&self) -> Vec<u8> {
+        self.sketch.to_java_bytes()
+    }
+
     pub(crate) fn merge_fruits(&mut self, right: PercentilesCollector) -> crate::Result<()> {
         self.sketch.merge(&right.sketch).map_err(|err| {
             TantivyError::AggregationError(AggregationError::InternalError(format!(
@@ -325,7 +331,7 @@ mod tests {
     use crate::aggregation::AggregationCollector;
     use crate::query::AllQuery;
     use crate::schema::{Schema, FAST};
-    use crate::Index;
+    use crate::{assert_nearly_equals, Index};
 
     #[test]
     fn test_aggregation_percentiles_empty_index() -> crate::Result<()> {
@@ -608,12 +614,16 @@ mod tests {
         let res = exec_request_with_query(agg_req, &index, None)?;
         assert_eq!(res["range_with_stats"]["buckets"][0]["doc_count"], 3);
 
-        assert_eq!(
-            res["range_with_stats"]["buckets"][0]["percentiles"]["values"]["1.0"],
+        assert_nearly_equals!(
+            res["range_with_stats"]["buckets"][0]["percentiles"]["values"]["1.0"]
+                .as_f64()
+                .unwrap(),
             5.0028295751107414
         );
-        assert_eq!(
-            res["range_with_stats"]["buckets"][0]["percentiles"]["values"]["99.0"],
+        assert_nearly_equals!(
+            res["range_with_stats"]["buckets"][0]["percentiles"]["values"]["99.0"]
+                .as_f64()
+                .unwrap(),
             10.07469668951144
         );
 
@@ -659,8 +669,14 @@ mod tests {
 
         let res = exec_request_with_query(agg_req, &index, None)?;
 
-        assert_eq!(res["percentiles"]["values"]["1.0"], 5.0028295751107414);
-        assert_eq!(res["percentiles"]["values"]["99.0"], 10.07469668951144);
+        assert_nearly_equals!(
+            res["percentiles"]["values"]["1.0"].as_f64().unwrap(),
+            5.0028295751107414
+        );
+        assert_nearly_equals!(
+            res["percentiles"]["values"]["99.0"].as_f64().unwrap(),
+            10.07469668951144
+        );
 
         Ok(())
     }