Paging in KillrVideo

This article discusses how to leverage Apache Cassandra's paging features to support a great user experience in web applications. Paging is an important technique for scalability and performance, breaking the loading of large data sets across multiple requests or "pages". The DataStax drivers default to a page size of 5000 rows, which can be overridden at the driver level or for individual statements. Apache Cassandra's paging feature is available since version 2.0 and has been used in various services within the KillrVideo reference application. The article also mentions continuous paging, introduced in DataStax Enterprise 5.1, which can improve read performance up to 3x for analytic queries such as full table scans.