Paging Description
Datatables can split the Rows in Tables into individual pages, which
is an Efficient method of Showing a large number of Records in a small
space. The end user is provided with Controls to request the display
of Different data as the navigate through the data. This Feature is
enabled by default, but if you Wish to disable it, you may do so with
this Parameter.
According to the documentation, if you do not set anything, the pattern is true, that is, you will have pagination (as described above) and other forms also by default. To disable some Features, see an example:
$('#example').DataTable( {
paging: false, // desativa paginação
ordering: false, //desativa ordenação no cabeçalho
searching: false // desativa a pesquisa no topo
} );
See an example in the documentation itself here
References:
https://www.datatables.net/manual/options
https://datatables.net/reference/option