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

Vadim Gritsenko <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:30:47 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xindice.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gildor Oronar wrote:
> 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.

Returning only partial results is on TODO list for Xindice but currently is not 
implemented.

Vadim