Depending on which frameworks you choose you have different options. It depends also on your use-case what you can choose:

Just number crunching on the server side:

• RDBMS
  • Database cursors + Procedures / JDBC
  • Hibernate (s. first answer)
  • Spring Batch
• NoSQL
  • Map-Reduce

You need to transport page by page to a client:

• Spring Paging
• Other libraries or own implementation which do support "cursor based" paging, i.e. paging based on the order of one or more attributes and a "greater than" query