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My first impression of GAE (admittedly, many months ago) was that it was very painful to deal with loading or otherwise manipulating data in BigTable. Do you h
by kevindication 16y ago
My first impression of GAE (admittedly, many months ago) was that it was very painful to deal with loading or otherwise manipulating data in BigTable. Do you have any shortcuts or advice here? Has it improved?
Annoying Example: I realized that I needed to delete a lot of records from the table. I created a URL that I could ping periodically to delete a bunch, then get killed because it was taking too long, repeat.
- mmastrac 16y agoCheck out the mapper API. They've wrapped up all the difficult details behind a hadoop-like interface: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/07/introducing-mapper-api.html http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/07/introducing-mapp...
- kevindication 16y agoThat looks exactly like what I needed. I will have to come back and give them a try again. Thanks.