I've never seen response times for datastore queries even near 10
seconds for queries on indexed properties but I know that it can take
up to a couple seconds for my app to do a 'cold start' if I haven't
had any requests in a awhile.

On May 26, 2:32 pm, Szaijan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I finally got my iPhone app communicating reliably with the GAE
> Datastore through a rest engine.  However, the response time was so
> slow as to call into question the viability of using GAE in my
> project.
>
> Response time was about 5 sec. to simply download the metadata for a
> single object type, and closer to 10 sec. for a list of five objects.
> By comparison, a 70 object Freebase query (using Mjt) took less than 2
> sec., so I know it's not my net connection.  Web responsiveness seems
> typical in my other activities on the same platform and network in
> that time frame.  Is the Datastore just really slow today, or is this
> typical?
>
> I always planned to put a set of "view" scripts in front of the
> datastore so I could send the far more efficient JSON and only send
> the data I need for any given request, but even if I cut response
> times in half that way it would be too slow.

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