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Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of NoSqlSupport

-              v6
+              v7
 On some DBs it's inefficient to request entities using a large offset (`queryset[5000:...]`). E.g., App Engine's datastore doesn't actually support offsets. When you use an offset the datastore always starts from offset 0 and throws away all results you didn't request (which means you can't ever query e.g. for the 10000th result). Instead of integer offsets App Engine and SimpleDB provide some kind of "bookmark" which marks the query's current position in the result set. You can pass a bookmark to a query to move the cursor to a certain position in the result set and then query efficiently from there.
+Django-nonrel doesn't yet support bookmarks.
+This also affects the pagination in the admin interface. Efficient "pagination" would only provide forward/backward navigation without any page numbering. This would also be a candidate for paginating via AJAX (e.g. like in Twitter).
+Django-nonrel doesn't yet support bookmarks, but the App Engine backend provides a private API for them.
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 `Query.count()` is problematic since a scalable `count()` method doesn't exist at least on App Engine. It would be nice to be able to pass an upper limit like `count(100)`, so if there are more than 100 results it will still return just 100.
+This also affects the results count in the admin interface.
 Django-nonrel's App Engine backend currently just limits the maximum count to 1000. Other backends don't have a `count()` limit.