For Internal and Caching directories, when searching for memberships you should be able to apply a search restriction to the result

MembershipQuery query = QueryBuilder.queryFor(String.class, group()).with(Restriction.on(GroupTermKeys.NAME).startingWith("jira-admin")).parentsOf(user()).withName(ADMIN_USER).startingAt(0).returningAtMost(10);

        MembershipQuery<User> userMembershipQuery = QueryBuilder.queryFor(User.class, EntityDescriptor.user())
                .with(Restriction.on(UserTermKeys.NAME).startingWith("justin"))
                .childrenOf(EntityDescriptor.group())
                .withNames("crowd-administrators", "jira-administrators")
                .startingAt(1)
                .returningAtMost(31);