(GAE team: congrats!!! on search-- please add clustered/grouped results<http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FieldCollapsing>to your todo list-- it's very hard to emulate such a feature at the app layer)
Jeff: - this is pre-release, and if you personally can't bear that risk, then let others play beta-tester for you. - if Google waits for pricing before release then that delays the release, which nobody wants. - pricing can depend on usage patterns, which they only know once they see usage. in general, if you're already live in production on GAE then there are few reasons to invest materially in a beta: - someone is demanding this. - you expect to depend on little details of this feature and therefore want to join the design - your karma with google and its community are running a little low, and this is an easy way to restock. <== why I'm posting this. - you have spare time and it's more fun than youtube cat videos. fwiw, 95% of the time, I read the docs on new APIs, then go back to work, and this is no exception: - we're not in pain: my company uses SOLR/Lucene on IntoVPS and it works well. It was a big investment last year, but now it's a sunk cost. - we need clustered/grouped results, which isn't in the beta (and it's hard to emulate). hope this helps! adam On Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:04:08 PM UTC-7, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: > > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Ugorji wrote: > > > > If I sink in development time using it, and build my application to > depend > > on it, and then the price is released and it's prohibitive to me, I've > lost > > a fair amount of development time. > > I concur. It's not necessary to have a final price, but some sort of > guidance is needed before investing the days of engineering time > required to use it. For example, I have a FTS solution right now > using an indexed list property in the datastore. Will this be cheaper > or more expensive? > > Jeff > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/HgPhY5I8iDAJ. 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.
