[jira] [Created] (CASSANDRA-8799) Pagination support in CQL and henceforth in the drivers

["Ajay (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Ajay created CASSANDRA-8799:
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             Summary: Pagination support in CQL and henceforth in the drivers
                 Key: CASSANDRA-8799
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8799
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: Core, Drivers (now out of tree)
            Reporter: Ajay


Currently Cassandra doesn't support pagination and henceforth the drivers either.

To achieve the same the client has to do the workaround as mentioned in the below blog (section Cql3 pagination)
www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cql3-table-support-in-hadoop-pig-and-hive

Before raising this enhancement, I initiated a discussion in Cassandra users forum and Java driver users forum as below:

http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg40864.html

Even if it is not possible to support Pagination, I would like to know the technical reasons.

Pagination support is important in any database query and especially in NoSQL as we deal with large number of rows. It is very common as well. 

As I mentioned in the forum discussion as well, the oagination support is best done in the Casssandra core like TOP, ROWNUM, LIMIT in SQL. 

If it is not possible to support pagination in CQL, could it be supported in Java driver (other drivers as well) as it is already supporting implicit pagination through https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4415. Suggestion : Multipage.FetchingState can be made immutable and returned on each page query and the driver cache it in the session level or expose it to the client to cache it. Accept the FetchingState on the ResultSet to continue to the iteration.



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