I'm also new to the Google App Engine and had the same question. After doing a little digging, I found a page that mentions the difference between the two quotas. Apparently you can have 5 GBs of actually blob data stored in the Blob data store as well as 1 GB of data stored in the normal Datastore. When storing blobs to the blobstore, the only data that counts towards your Datastore quota is the data saved in the BlobInfo record that is created with your blob.
See the bottom of this page for Google's explanation: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/blobstore/ Also, take a look at the Google App Engine admin console dashboard - you'll see there are two different counters listed: one for the 1GB Datastore quota and one for the 5GB Blobstore quota. On Sunday, March 3, 2013 4:29:58 PM UTC-5, victo...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Hello, I am very new to Google app engine, I had a few questions regarding > storage which I was not able to answers for in the documents. First > question I had was regarding the quota for BLOBS. > > -The quota states a 5GB limit for BLOBS, but notes BLOBS count toward the > Stored Data quota of 1GB, so I am kind of confused how 5GB of BLOB will fit > into the the 1GB limit of stored data? > > -Referring back to question 1, what is the size used to store on a BLOB on > Google app engine? > > -As well, my application's primary purpose is to store lots of text > (somewhere about 100,000 strings each containing about 5000 characters). I > am trying to think of the best strategy to accomplish this and any input > would be very much appreciated. My thought is to store the Strings into the > blob (first encoding it to UTF-8) to get more storage space. Would it be > more beneficial to use AMAZONS Dyno database for storage and run the app on > Google app engine. > > Thanks in advance! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
