Explores two pagination strategies for handling large database result sets: offset pagination and keyset pagination. Offset pagination is simpler and natively supported by Spring Data JPA through the Pageable interface, but becomes inefficient with large offsets as the database must process all skipped rows. Keyset pagination is more complex but significantly more efficient for large datasets, using predicates to exclude already-retrieved records rather than skipping them. Includes practical implementation examples showing how to use Spring Data JPA's built-in offset pagination with derived queries, custom JPQL, and native SQL, plus a custom implementation of keyset pagination using Blaze Persistence and composite repositories.

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