The death of normalization is premature. I wouldn't drink the denormalization coolaid yet.
Sure joins are difficult in GAE, and disk space is cheap, however when you change one atomic value in a denormalized database, you'll have to change many rows, which itself can be slow, especially in GAE. On Sep 28, 6:06 pm, Wooble <geoffsp...@gmail.com> wrote: > The datastore isn't a relational database, so articles about > relational databases for the most part don't apply. > > On Sep 28, 7:54 am, jerry ramphisa <jere...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi there, > > > I hear normalizing the database is bad if you are using google > > datastore. On other other hand, most articles mention people should > > normalize databases, it doesn't matter what kind. > > > Can someone give me light here.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
