Company
Date Published
Author
Keshav Murthy
Word count
1921
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Google's search behavior provides insights into pagination features used in enterprise applications, which aim to retrieve and display subsets of result sets based on pagination specifications. Google's first page results include information such as the number of pages matched, execution time, and advertisements. The article explores database pagination using Couchbase, focusing on counting total results, fetching the first page, creating links to next and other pages, and fetching subsequent pages. It discusses optimizing queries by exploiting database characteristics and optimizations provided by the database management system. Key features include index collation, offset pushdown, and other optimizations in Couchbase 5.0. The article concludes that even with optimized N1QL query processing and index scans, further optimization is possible for use cases mainly "fetch next".