Hi Peter,

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:01 AM, Peter Liu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is using url as a string key for an entity really inefficient for
> space?
>
> Say if the url is long and it's 1k byte, each key is repeatedly stored
> with each indexed property right? If you have a list property of 5000
> items, will the keys of those 5000 index entries consume 5M?
>

That's correct (give or take some overhead factor). If you're concerned
about length, you might want to consider using the MD5 or SHA1 hash of the
URL as the key instead.

-Nick Johnson


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