There's a lot of work being done in the open source communities to try to address the need for easier to scale structured data:
Beyond the key-value stores: http://drizzle.org/ http://www.mongodb.org/ I'd suggest looking at this projects (amongst others) and even contributing. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:46 AM, rvjcallanan <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand that Google is intending to introduce an SQL back-end in > GAE for Business. This is good news but there may also be an > opportunity here to do more than just bolt on SQL for the sake of the > die-hards amongst us. > > I am wondering if Google can come up with an SQL implementation (or > abstraction layer) which has the high scalability and high concurrency > potential of the DataStore but with the following stipulation: > > The number of SQL database/schema instances can grow indefinitely but > each instance will have practical size and concurrency limits. > > It might even be possible to store SQL instances as transaction-safe > and data-consistent "entity groups" within the existing Datastore > paradigm. > > Such a high scalability SQL model would support applications which > manage "chunks" of SQL-based data which are independent of each other > with each chunk accessed by a limited number of users (typically one). > There would have to be some application mechanism for imposing > practical size limits on each chunk e.g. a housekeeping or archive > operation. > > There are many real world cases which could work within these > restrictions and SQL would be a boon to rapid application development, > schema-based data consistency and running complex queries and reports. > > -- > 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]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine -- 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.
