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Why is Google App Engine not the answer for Python? Is it "the man" element or is there something at a technical level you don't like or missing?
by dotBen 16y ago
Why is Google App Engine not the answer for Python? Is it "the man" element or is there something at a technical level you don't like or missing?
- mseebach 16y agoGoogle limits you to using their own key/value store instead of a regular, relational DB. This makes it hard to migrate to and from GAE, so there's a fair bit of vendor lock-in. A Heroku app can run anywhere else, out of the box.
- dotBen 16y agoAt Google I/O, Google said MySQL (or MySQL compatible version of their own storage, whatever) was coming soon to App Engine. (I don't work for Google btw, I'm just a bit of a fan of App Engine)
- blasdel 16y agoBigTable is not a motherfucking key/value store. It's a sorted tuplestore with built-in multidimensionality. Hypertable is a direct clone, HBase and Cassandra use the same style of API but have slightly different storage backends. Just because it isn't a SQL database doesn't mean it's non-relational or key/value.