You could try this: http://code.google.com/p/he3-appengine-lib/wiki/PagedQuery
It's a complete module that uses cursors for a paging abstraction similar to Django's built-in pagination and just as easy to implement and you can jump to any page in your result set. On Feb 23, 3:59 am, tobik <tobiaspoto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Independent? Now I'm confused. Does it or does it not matter whether I > select first page or 100th using offset? > > I checked the cursors, it looks nice, but it seems to me, that it's > good only for "next next next" type of pagination. If the user jumped > from the first to the 100th page and then back to the 50th page, I > would still need to go through all previous entries and it would be > slow. Or am I wrong? Naturally, I know that "next next" type of > pagination would be suitable for most of cases. > > Ok and really last question, I hope I don't bother you much. What > about pagination based on time periods. For example like "all entries > created today, yesterday, last week, last month". It would use simple > filtering (greater than, less than) so it should be fast.. or not? > > On 23 ún, 06:25, Robert Kluin <robert.kl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Performance is independent of the number of entities you have. > > Namespaces are great for segregating data, but you can't query across > > them -- you'll only get results from one. > > > Like Chris mentioned, use cursors instead of offsets. And if you can, > > then yes a well thought out caching strategy is a good way to improve > > performance. > > > Robert > > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 18:57, tobik <tobiaspoto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Sorry, one more tricky question. What about namespaces. If I had 10 > > > namespaces and in each namespace 10 entries, would the performance be > > > the same as if I had only one namespace but with 100 entries? > > > > On 22 ún, 23:31, Chris Copeland <ch...@cope360.com> wrote: > > >> Django's Paginator is not going to be efficient on GAE and is definitely > > >> not > > >> going to scale. > > > >> GAE provides cursors which are a very efficient way to page through query > > >> results:http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/queries.html#Q... > > > >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:57 PM, tobik <tobiaspoto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > I built a page using Django's Paginator which displays a simple table > > >> > with 20 items from around 1000 total stored in database. I don't know > > >> > how the Paginator works from the inside, but according to the > > >> > appstats, it makes two queries (first counts items, second selects > > >> > given page) and each one of them takes around 130ms of cpu time. Is it > > >> > a normal value? The truth is that the page loads noticeably slower > > >> > than a page without any queries. And I also counted, that with 6.5 cpu > > >> > hours limit I can afford around 3000 such queries every day which is a > > >> > quite small number. And it's only 1000 entries in the database. > > > >> > So far I've been using PHP+MySQL and I am used to that such simple > > >> > queries are really fast, even on poor free hostings. I tried to apply > > >> > caching on every single page generated by Paginator and it naturally > > >> > reduced the loading time to minimum. So is it the right approach to > > >> > AppEngine? Cache everything as much as possible? > > > >> > -- > > >> > 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. > > > > -- > > > 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 > > > athttp://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-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.
