OFFSET/LIMIT vs KEYSET Pagination: Which Strategy Serves Large Query Bounding Best?
Choosing Between OFFSET/LIMIT and KEYSET Pagination The goal is to expose a consistent, performant paginated view of a million‑row dataset while applying arbitrary WHERE clauses and JOIN filters. Two documented approaches exist: OFFSET/LIMIT – simple to use, works with any ORDER BY, but performance degrades linearly as page numbers increase. KEYSET (seek) Pa