BigQuery would certainly work, but I don't think it's a fit for this project. BigQuery is best used for very, very large datasets that do not change. The Google I/O demo was based on every single edit ever made to Wikipedia - this data is effectively immutable.
-- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blogger: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Julian Namaro <namarojul...@gmail.com>wrote: > GAE is not designed for performing complex queries on a dataset. > It is possible to get it to work by anticipating what queries you will > need and building the corresponding indexes, but it is not easy nor > flexible, and the complexity of the queries would be limited. > > Why not start with a relational database ? 10 millions rows doesn't > sound like it would be slower than GAE. > Not sure about your use case but BigQuery also looks like a > possibility: http://code.google.com/apis/bigquery/docs/overview.html > > > > On Nov 28, 11:56 am, smitts <smitt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm considering using GAE to host a relatively large (10 Million+ > > rows, possibly larger) database. Data from this database is then > > retrieved using filter criteria on multiple columns of the table and > > displayed to the user. Typically the criteria is (column a < 50) && > > (10 < column b < 1000) && (column c == true), which has been > > relatively database intensive on a traditional LAMP. > > > > Does anyone have experience running a similar setup? Most of what I > > have seen GAE used for is much less database intensive. Could it > > work? Should I expect faster or slower responses from the LAMP? > > > > Thanks! > > -- > 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-appeng...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- 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-appeng...@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.
