There is still $$ difference. Memcache is (or appears to be) free, datastore reads are not. j
On Jan 5, 8:01 am, Andrin von Rechenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey there > > For latency reasons we cache frequently fetched datastore > entities:http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/scaling/memcache.html#entit... > > *def getProfile(id):* > * profile = memcache.get(id)* > * if not profile:* > * profile = datastore.get(id)* > * memcache.put(profile)* > * return profile* > * > * > So we first check if we can get it from memcache, > if not we get it from datastore and put it into memcache. > Simple. In many cases the a profile is not in memcache, > because we have a lot of profiles. So we do 3 RPCs. > > Looking a bit at appstats it seems that these days a > datastore.get_by_key_name is as fast as a memcache.get > in many cases, so I'm wondering if google has put a > memcache infront of datastore and the pattern I'm doing > above is obsolete and I could save the extra RPCs? > > Or maybe datastore is just having a good day? > > Cheers, > -Andrin -- 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.
