--- title: DumboDB Log Pagination | daily.dev description: DumboDB is a version-controlled document database combining MongoDB and Git concepts. Standard SQL/MongoDB pagination using LIMIT/OFFSET or skip doesn't work... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/dumbodb-log-pagination-njgqk8pnj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: DumboDB Log Pagination | daily.dev og:description: DumboDB is a version-controlled document database combining MongoDB and Git concepts. Standard SQL/MongoDB pagination using LIMIT/OFFSET or skip doesn't work... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/dumbodb-log-pagination-njgqk8pnj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NJgqK8PnJ.png og:image:alt: DumboDB Log Pagination og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # DumboDB Log Pagination **[DoltHub Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/dolthub-blog)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary DumboDB is a version-controlled document database combining MongoDB and Git concepts. Standard SQL/MongoDB pagination using LIMIT/OFFSET or skip doesn't work for commit history logs because commits form a directed acyclic graph (DAG) with no linear ordering. The post explains why traversal requires breadth-first search and introduces the `next` parameter in `dumboLog`, which returns the current BFS frontier so clients can resume pagination without re-walking the entire history. Practical JavaScript code demonstrates paginating all commit history using this frontier-passing approach. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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