On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote:
> > > 2. In reading through the Google Appengine docs, the GDS stuff looks > like > > we mainly can access the data through GQL. I don't see any mention of > doing > > map/reduce kinds of computations (Ethan and I were talking on the phone > > today about MTT Appengine possibilities). I'm new to all this stuff, so > > it's quite possible that a) I missed it, or b) I just don't understand > what > > I'm seeing/reading yet. Or does GQL do map/reduce on the back end to do > its > > magic? Is GQL the main/only way we have to access GDS? > > > > As far as I and Igor know there are no way of doing Map/Reduce with GDS. > And > > GQL (or filters which is practically synonym) is the main and only way to > > access GDS data. > btw, afaik - the gds is using mapreduce explicitly on the backend - one needs do nothing in order to ENABLE it: just use their API and the framework will do the rest.
