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As far as I can tell this is just for App Engine stuff, with APIs for Python and Java. They could have opened it up to the web with REST APIs or something simil

by dendory 15y ago

As far as I can tell this is just for App Engine stuff, with APIs for Python and Java. They could have opened it up to the web with REST APIs or something similar. Am I wrong?

slig 15y ago
Wouldn't the latency be a huge issue?
- andypants 15y ago
  Only as much of an issue as with other database hosts? (ie. not much of an issue at all)
- deleted 15y ago
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- dendory 15y ago
  Depends on the use. Plenty of systems have a local memory cache and queries database only for large chunks of data.
alnayyir 15y ago
You're correct, but Google isn't in the business of providing useful services/code for non-frontend programmers. Cf. Them not open sourcing anything remotely useful outside of their JS stuff.
alexandros 15y ago
What stops you from writing a GAE app to do just that? There's papers out there on how to map SQL to REST APIs, I've written a few myself.