Great, thanks Nick.

"No, having all your keys have the same prefix will not impact
performance.
Bigtable is smart enough to handle this. :) "

Now I didn't know this, and I can't find anything about that in the
docs. Can anyone verify this?

- Koen

On Jun 23, 12:31 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com>
wrote:
> Hi Koen,
>
> No, having all your keys have the same prefix will not impact performance.
> Bigtable is smart enough to handle this. :)
>
> -Nick Johnson
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Koen Bok <k...@madebysofa.com> wrote:
>
> > I want my datastore keys to be uuid's (hex presentation), but they can
> > start with a digit which is not allowed. So I figured I'd add a
> > constant prefix.
>
> > Could that have a negative impact on the index the datastore builds?
> > It shouldn't right? Just double checking :-)
>
> --
> Nick Johnson, App Engine Developer Programs Engineer
> Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number:
> 368047
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