Re: [appengine-java] Re: Is it safe for one ancestor to have millions of children in one List object?

2012-02-20 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
The biggest question is why would you want to do this? From the low-level api perspective, you can't have a list property with more than 5k items. But maybe JDO models this list as a proxy to a query. When you try to load that proxy it's going to load all 5m items out of the datastore and you

[appengine-java] Re: Is it safe for one ancestor to have millions of children in one List object?

2012-02-17 Thread Cyrille Vincey
Forget about this way : even if this having millions of children entities for one ancestor is theoretically feasible, you'll hit a write performance issue when you generate those entities : only 1 write / second in one given entity group (ancestor). On 17 fév, 03:16, hendrix.jason