On 9 July 2011 00:34, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> wrote: > Based on pricing (big entities are priced the same as small entities) > and API design (there is no way to select out parts of an entity) I > presume that the raw size of an entity isn't all that significant of a > problem. At least, it's not as significant a problem as fetching > multiple entities, which is what you're likely to do when you have a > heavily normalized structure.
Every entity fetch involves a table scan and that probably is the part of that dominates the scaling needs and therefore pricing for these operations. -- http://self.maluke.com/ -- 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.
