a very good post On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 2:42 AM, rvjcallanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am about to take the GAE plunge (at least in the experimentation > sense). > I understand the current irritations and I am hopeful that these will > be overcome in due course > > But I am very curious how far Google can take this thing... > > A key question on everyone's mind: > > Can we assume that GAE developers will eventually be able to produce > GAE apps with similar complexity, reliability, scalability and > performance ballparks as Gmail, subject of course to hosting fees? > > If the answer to that question is "YES", then I am am convinced that > GAE will eventually be able to host sophisticated financial > applications that are not currently in the GAE sweetspot, e.g. > accounts, payroll, etc > > Or would it be more realistic to assume that GAE developers will never > really be able to leverage what Gmail's developers can leverage? > > Looking beyond the Gmail comparison, I see lots of problems with the > GAE datastore for financial applications e.g. the absence of joins, > aggregation, etc. I understand that these limitations are inherent to > the BigTable paradigm, yet I already see posts by developers showing > how these limitations can be overcome. Solutions tend to revolve > around de-normalisation and other forms of data redundancy together > with a sizable smattering of code trickery. All very, very botchy and > alien to the GAE philosophy of removing much of the the tedium of web > development. > > I am wondering if it will ever be possible to write an abstraction > layer that will present the underlying GAE datastore as an SQL > database albeit at a cost in terms of data efficiency, CPU cycles and > bandwidth...or is this completely missing the point? > > Bear in mind that I am thinking a few years down the road. > > > > -- Stay hungry,Stay foolish. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
