Yes, the missing referential integrity, the (factual) need to duplicate data over multiple classes for fast reads and the resulting necessity to manually cascade writing operations will be a pita for most applications.
2009/4/17 Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo <thiag...@gmail.com> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Otho <taa...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > In how far shoult GAE be a showstopper for anything? It is neither the > > promised land, nor some gift from the gods. I would rather find it a > > showstopper, if shady compromises were made just to cater to a somewhat > > castrated platform which is actually only beneficial, if you should > happen > > to have the next viral killer-application and need to scale fast and to > > millions of users. > > I agree with you. Reading about GAE's data store, I came to the > conclusion that it is very good for web apps like Tweeter and Flickr: > simple, with few business rules and entity classes. I wouldn't use it > for an ERP or management applications. There's no silver bullet, > there's no free lunch and the solution depends on the context (one > former professor of mine always said that). :) > > -- > Thiago > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >
