Why Your Deep Pagination Is Slow: LIMIT OFFSET vs Keyset Pagination in Spring Boot
This article analyzes the performance bottleneck of LIMIT OFFSET deep pagination in MySQL with millions of rows, demonstrates EXPLAIN plan analysis, compares traditional pagination, subquery, covering index, and keyset pagination approaches, provides Spring Boot implementation examples for MyBatis-Plus and JPA, and benchmarks showing keyset pagination maintains constant response time regardless of page depth.
