completely new to NxD: query that doesn't requre all result returned?

Dear all

One big difference when I used LDAP and ordinary RDBMS is LDAP return  
first set of results (first 100, for example) almost instantly, and RDBMS  
return it slowly because it return all search result together, or at least  
needs to calculate total number of results.

In my project total number of result is not important, users cannot wait  
10 min only to get first page of result when 9.9 min is used to calculate  
total number of records.

Can Xindice be configured to funcion in the LDAP way (return first set of  
result instantly without counting total number of results)? As we will  
have a lot of records, this is important for me to decide what database to  
use.

Best regards!

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