Hello Carl,

    My question was rather more generic, I mean from an application
design point of view, what things does one need to consider when
creating an app for GAE. I was asking about Rdb, because thats the
only db structure I have been working with all my life so it would
have been more "intuitive" for me to understand the concepts.

On Aug 19, 2:36 pm, Carl <carl.ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi Benigno,
>
> 'fraid my project is from a clean sheet so I've not investigated how
> to migrate relational databases.
> I'm currently looking athttp://code.google.com/p/app-engine-patch
> which leverages Django to access BigTable natively.
>
> C
>
> On Aug 19, 12:52 pm, Benigno <bca...@albendas.com> wrote:
>
> > Carl,
>
> >      Sorry I do not add any answer. I would be delighted to hear more
> > about the subject, as it is indeed quite important for me too.
>
> >      Can you address me to any place to learn more about bigtable?.
> > Rather, what are best practices and how to "transform" an Rdb
> > structure into something that works for bigtable.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Benigno.
>
> > On Aug 18, 1:37 pm, Carl <carl.ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > hi
>
> > > I'm currently building a project with python, web2py & pyjamas; I will
> > > be deploying on gae.
>
> > > As you will know gae isn't a relational store but leverages a
> > > different design so I want to experiment with two different
> > > approaches: a) accessing gae thru web2py (treating gae as a subset of
> > > a relational db) and b) accessing bigtable more directly to help my
> > > data accesses scale on google's infrastructure.
>
> > > Now core to web2py's philosophy is compatibility for code across a
> > > range of data stores. I realise my option b) **may not** be compatible
> > > with that goal (perhaps this is where the new DAL comes in?).
>
> > > finally the question: has anyone implemented bigtable directly while
> > > still using web2py and if so, how do they do local testing?
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