App Engine probably won't be the best bet for what you are trying to do. While you can do it the limitations on processing time per request and no cron jobs will probably get you in the end. Rather than try to make tons of distributed counters and such you may want to seek another options.
On Sep 23, 12:13 pm, Ethan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some of the applications I would like to write involve crunching some > numbers. For example, taking a string value pair and finding out > things like, how often have I seen this value in the past hour, past > week, past month, has the range of this value changed, is it more > frequent, less frequent. Take all this and also throw in mins, maxs, > averages. This is quite simple using a standard RDBMS but when I think > how to engineer this in the datastore my head starts to spin. > > So my questions are...does anyone know of a few projects that are > using datastore and doing a lot of analytics, something I could take a > look at? Perhaps it isn't as complicated as I imagine. > > Also, in general if you were writing something like this do you stick > with GAE or do you more to something that supports a standard RDBMS? > > Thanks, > Ethan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
