[google-appengine] Understanding Data Writes

2012-02-08 Thread Richard Arrano
Hello, I'm having some trouble understanding the billing figures for when I perform data writes. I had 1300 entities with 1 property indexed and I kicked off a job via the Datastore Admin to delete them all. Given that: Entity Delete (per entity) 2 Writes + 2 Writes per indexed property value

Re: [google-appengine] Understanding Data Writes

2012-02-08 Thread Robert Kluin
Hi Richard, The datastore admin also incurs some overhead. At the minimum it will be querying to find the keys that need deleted, so you'll have *at least* 1 additional small operation per entity deleted. In addition you'll have overhead from the queries, and the shards getting / writing their