Brandon, thanks for responding,

Will the request take significantly longer as I add more queries? Or
are 2, 3, 4 queries not much slower than just 1?

Thanks

On Jun 19, 6:47 pm, Brandon Thomson <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Filtering in memory works best if you have the all the data aggregated
> into one or a few entities since there is a very high api-cpu overhead
> per entity fetch regardless of the amount of data. Either way you go
> this would be expensive.
>
> That said I'd split into multiple queries so you can sort the current
> results after each fetch and skip fetching the rest if you find you
> have enough results to display something useful to the user.
>
> Regards,
> Brandon Thomson
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:28 AM, coltsith <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Tim,
>
> > thanks for responding.
>
> > Yes, I know the user won't want to look at all the games. However, I
> > need to filter and sort the results. For example one way I sort is by
> > which games have players with the closest rating to you.
>
> > So for that, I need to fetch all games, and custom sort through all
> > them based on their ratings being closest to the calling player's
> > rating.
>
> > Also, I need to have an inequality filter on a property that I don't
> > sort by. I don't want to return games that were created by the calling
> > player:
>
> > where gameOwnerId != playerId && order by gameCreateDate etc etc.
>
> > The current query limitations restrict me too much.
>
> > On Jun 19, 1:09 pm, Tim Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I think you should ask yourself, will anyone really page through 20000
> >> games
> >> or even 1000 games?
>
> >> On Jun 19, 7:39 pm, coltsith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> > In my game server, I let the user browse the open games. They can
> >> > choose to filter them, or not put any filters at all.
>
> >> > My question is, what's the best way to load the games from the
> >> > datastore. Let's say there's like 20,000.
>
> >> > Should I fetch them all in 1 query (no more 1000 limit) or fetch in
> >> > increments of like 2000 each and combine them into a big list?
>
> >> > Thanks
>
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