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They're slowly getting there. But I think Bulk Data operations are a lot more important than background tasks, and it's sad that there's still no progress ther
by jasonkester 18y ago
They're slowly getting there. But I think Bulk Data operations are a lot more important than background tasks, and it's sad that there's still no progress there.
Until you can do "delete from Stapler where color='red'" or "update Building set onFire=false where isMine=true", AppEngine is still basically unsuitable to the task of hosting web applications.
- th0ma5 18y agoI would say this solves this by allowing you to batch segments of that bulk... a streaming bulk transfer may not be possible because you don't know what server the data is on, and what order it comes in, etc... Google has had a lot of success building web applications using this generic, split-up way of storing data... it sucks for one box, but for their cluster of so many, that makes up for it. I haven't had problems with the example queries like what you're asking for, if the dataset that it modifies is small.
- jasonkester 18y agoIt only really becomes a problem when you add a column to a table and want to fill in values for all the existing data. Or when you want to truncate a table.