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Re: Google Cloud Datastore

#21
I've got a little experience with using GAE for a production app, and the datastore was my favorite part. A lot of their components are a little bit jank, but the Python ndb library was pretty nice.

I definitely hope they plan to include ndb in their googledatastore library. I feel like ndb is the actual selling point to me, and would make me really want to use this for a production app.

Re: Google Cloud Datastore

#22
post #6

This looks awesome, but I would be hesitant to try it since you can't know if Google will keep the service alive a few years from now.

I don't get this attitude towards commercial Google products. You are a paying customer that is very likely to use other Google cloud services. It would be stupid to annoy a large subset of the paying customers by not providing a clear roadmap of sunsetting. And Google stupid is not. I am excited and will gladly try it on some side projects.

In my experience as a GAE customer, I was surprised at how much they didn't seem to care.

Re: Google Cloud Datastore

#24
Sorry if i've missed something, but what's the news ? Schemaless datastore has been a part of app engine since the beginning, and this particular evolution since a least a year...

Re: Google Cloud Datastore

#25

This looks awesome, but I would be hesitant to try it since you can't know if Google will keep the service alive a few years from now.

Determining the fate of Google products might be an interesting use of prediction markets.

Re: Google Cloud Datastore

#26
post #4

This looks awesome, but I would be hesitant to try it since you can't know if Google will keep the service alive a few years from now.

This is a cloud service. I'd imagine they will be much less likely to kill these services outright. The impact on paying customers would just be too large. That's not to say they won't sunset certain features though.

I don't think you can get more "paying customers" than Google Checkout, but that just got axed.

Re: Google Cloud Datastore

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post #5

It took me a while to understand what this actually is and where it fits in. These links are much more informative: https://developers.google.com/datastore/docs/concepts/ https://developers.google.com/cloud/pricing#cloud-datastore "Unlike traditional relational databases, the Datastore uses a distributed architecture to automatically manage scaling to very large data sets. .. Datastore reads scale because the only qu…

The Cloudant link 404s with the trailing slash for some reason

Re: Google Cloud Datastore

#29
post #5

It took me a while to understand what this actually is and where it fits in. These links are much more informative: https://developers.google.com/datastore/docs/concepts/ https://developers.google.com/cloud/pricing#cloud-datastore "Unlike traditional relational databases, the Datastore uses a distributed architecture to automatically manage scaling to very large data sets. .. Datastore reads scale because the only qu…

The Cloudant link 404s with the trailing slash for some reason

It's because that URL erroneously has the left-to-right control character[1] at the end, which encodes as https://cloudant.com/%E2%80%8E - a missing page on that website.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-to-right_mark

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