Proper Way to Retrieve More than 128 Documents with RavenDB

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I know variants of this question have been asked before (even by me), but I still don\'t understand a thing or two about this...

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Answer 1

It is worth noting that since version 2.5, RavenDB has an "unbounded results API" to allow streaming. The example from the docs shows how to use this:

var query = session.Query("Users/ByActive").Where(x => x.Active);
using (var enumerator = session.Advanced.Stream(query))
{
    while (enumerator.MoveNext())
    {
        User activeUser = enumerator.Current.Document;
    }
}

There is support for standard RavenDB queries, Lucence queries and there is also async support.

The documentation can be found here. Ayende's introductory blog article can be found here.