Strategies for One-to-Many type of association where “many” side entries are in millions
问题 Giving an analogy: Twitter like scenario where in a person can be followed by huge number of people (one-to-many) , Few options which I could think of Use some OR mapping tool with lazy loading. But when you access the "followers" side of relations, it will still load all the data even tough lazily. So not a suitable option. Do not maintain one-to-many relation (or not use any OR mapping) . Fetch the "Followers" side in separate call and handle the paging etc programmatically. Offload