I will definitively look in to how the data store works. I use Python
myself which give me the same type-name possibilities. As the primary
concern for my application is fresh data I don’t need all the
historically stored data and can easily get rid of most of it. Thanks
for your appreciated feedback.

On Jul 22, 10:56 pm, Nate Bauernfeind <nate.bauernfe...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> If you want to use less space you will need to obfuscate your type's names.
>
> I'm using Java/Scala and my type's name is "U" and the parameter is "n" (in
> scala I can easily import U as User). This made a 200mb+ difference by
> reducing the names to one character. You may want to watch some of the "How
> the Datastore works" Google IO videos. All of the indexes include full
> parameter names on every entry, so it might be worth investigating if you're
> already in the process of repopulating your datastore.
>
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:34 PM, ivarconr <ivarc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ok, sounds like mine. I got 153k entities taking about 45MB raw data
> > with 6 different indexes. The total stored data is reported to be
> > 280MB, which sounds a bit high to me, but might be correct depending
> > on how much overhead you get on each index.
>
> > On Jul 22, 10:15 pm, Nate Bauernfeind <nate.bauernfe...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > I have a type that has 1.45 million instances using a total of 27mb of
> > raw
> > > data but uses a total of 340mb in the datastore including *only* the
> > default
> > > indexes (on the key and on a string field).
>
> > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:10 PM, ivarconr <ivarc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I have been waiting a few days. Would expect it to be updated by now.
>
> > > > On Jul 22, 9:21 pm, Nate Bauernfeind <nate.bauernfe...@gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > It takes about 24 hours to update the "real" stored data counter.
> > (The
> > > > > indexes are slow to update their portion of total stored data.)
>
> > > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:57 AM, ivarconr <ivarc...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > > > I just deleted most of the old data for my application and the size
> > of
> > > > > > all entities are now reported to be 44 MBytes. I have 6 indexes
> > (where
> > > > > > 3 are over 99% of the data). Shouldn't the total stored data
> > counter
> > > > > > be updated? It says I'm still using 280 MB, which sounds a lot to
> > me,
> > > > > > even with additional data for indexes.
>
> > > > > > Application id: bikeoslo
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