Thanks for the reply Nick.  There are various articles on the internet
claiming Google had limitations on variable size early on, maybe it
was just a misunderstanding

On Jun 6, 12:52 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com>
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> Geoffrey is correct - there isn't and never was such a limit. In fact, it'd
> be difficult to implement, and I can't see any reason it would be at all
> useful. The only size limits are on the total memory consumed by your
> instance, and on the size of API calls.
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> -Nick Johnson
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> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Geoffrey Spear <geoffsp...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> > On May 26, 10:11 am, JH <ja...@tickettrackit.com> wrote:
> > > I'm actually talking about python variables.  Ints, Strings, Lists,
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> > I don't believe there was ever such a limit. The 1MB limit is on the
> > API calls, which makes it impossible to have a datastore entity larger
> > than 1MB (and, thus, impossible to have individual properties larger
> > than 1MB as well, although in practice you'll never fit a whole 1MB
> > into a property because the entire serialized entity needs to be able
> > to fit into the 1MB API call to write it).
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