Thanks for the pointer Nick, I'll give that a try.

-john


On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Philippe<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> thank you Nick.
> I will then also use ArrayProperty in my Models !
> I really thought that I could use ListProperty with indexed=False,
> just as a quick and cheap list.
>
>
> On Sep 1, 1:56 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Hi Philippe,
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Philippe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > hello Nick,
>>
>> > Why do you advice using ArrayProperty instead of db.ListProperty
>> > (float, indexed=False)
>> > with the indexed=False, it should behave the same way, no ?
>>
>> A ListProperty requires encoding each element of the list as a separate
>> property entry in the Entity Protocol Buffer. Protocol Buffer encoding in
>> Python is less efficient than simple array encoding (which is extremely
>> straightforward), and you also incur the additional overhead of serializing
>> the key multiple times - eg, a 1000 entry list is serialized as 1000 (key,
>> value) pairs.
>>
>> -Nick Johnson
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Philippe
>>
>> > On Sep 1, 11:48 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> > > Hi John,
>> > > You might also want to look at the ArrayProperty in the App Engine
>> > > Cookbook:
>> >http://appengine-cookbook.appspot.com/recipe/store-arrays-of-numeric-....
>> > > Pickling is not particularly efficient, so using an Array is likely to
>> > > be
>> > > both faster and more compact.
>>
>> > > -Nick Johnson
>>
>> > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:55 AM, John Newlin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > > > Did some more trial and error, and found that if I change the
>> > > > ListProperty(float) to BlobProperty with pickled data, the time for
>> > > > queries goes down from 700ms to 70ms, which seems pretty reasonable.
>>
>> > > > -john
>>
>> > > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:08 PM, jnewlin<[email protected]> wrote:
>> > > > > Hi all,
>>
>> > > > > I'm seeing from the logs that my query is taking 400ms up to around
>> > > > > 1000ms.  My model looks like:
>> > > > > class Track2(db.Model):
>> > > > >    name = db.StringProperty(required=True)
>> > > > >    date = db.StringProperty(required=True)
>> > > > >    max_speed = db.StringProperty(required=True)
>> > > > >    owner = db.UserProperty(required=True)
>> > > > >    latitudes = db.ListProperty(float, indexed=False)
>> > > > >    longitudes = db.ListProperty(float, indexed=False)
>> > > > >    altitudes = db.ListProperty(float, indexed=False)
>> > > > >    heart_rates = db.ListProperty(int, indexed=False)
>> > > > >    speeds = db.ListProperty(float, indexed=False)
>>
>> > > > > Each of the lists has just under 1500 entries (I only have 1 row at
>> > > > > the moment)
>>
>> > > > > You can see an example of what I do with this here:
>>
>> > > >http://mytrackviewer.appspot.com/trackView/ag1teXRyYWNrdmlld2Vycg0LEg.
>> > ..
>>
>> > > > > (I know, there are other places to put track data, I don't care, I'm
>> > > > > mostly just learning at this point)
>>
>> > > > > My fetch code looks like:
>> > > > >        track_data = db.get(track_id)
>> > > > >        if track_data and ( len(track_data.latitudes) == len
>> > > > > (track_data.longitudes) ):
>> > > > >            logging.debug('fetched track data with %d lat/longs' % len
>> > > > > (track_data.latitudes))
>> > > > > # blah blah blah, writes out stuff to generate the map from here.
>>
>> > > > > This log entry here though happens after ~750ms from the request log
>> > > > > entry.
>>
>> > > > > So my question is this:  Is there some way to speed this up?
>>
>> > > > > I also tried splitting the Track common stuff from the Trackpoints,
>> > > > > and keeping all of the points in a separate table.  That was a little
>> > > > > slower, so I'm guessing pulling 1 really big row with all the data is
>> > > > > faster than pulling 1500 individual rows, is that correct?
>>
>> > > > > Anything else I can try to speed up the query?  would turning off the
>> > > > > validator help?  I'm not sure what else to try.
>>
>> > > > > ok thanks
>>
>> > > > > -John
>>
>> > > --
>> > > Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine
>>
>> --
>> Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine
> >
>

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