Huge SWT / JFace tables with filtering

Question

I want to populate a virtual SWT table with a huge number of rows (up to 3 million). When I use a lazy content provider, I cannot use filters, and when I use a regular content provider, the performance when changing a filter becomes very poor. Is there a way to filter large tables in SWT or JFace?

Answer 1

Must be filtered at the data provider level.

So, if your data comes from a database, use SQL to pre-filter your results.