Hi Rohit, The size of the application data store is going to change from container to container, but I don't think that it will realistically get to the size of 1-2Mb per user per application. Even though 1-2Mb doesn't sound too big, there are some social network applications with millions of users - an app storing 1 Mb per user with a million users will need about a terabyte of storage space.
Activities are for notifying a user's friends about actions that the user has taken in an application. It doesn't provide any form of storage (other than the piece of text used to describe the activity, I guess). Your best bet for something like this would be to invest in some scalable storage hosting. Amazon provides a service for this called S3 [1], and I'm sure that there are other services like this as well. Hope this helps, ~Arne [1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=16427261 On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Rohit Ghatol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I am trying to build an application which needs viewer to store some > data for himselves and retrieve data for viewer's friends. > > Now at first I decided to use the user application space (to start > with), but it is infact it is too small (and the purpose of it looks > like to store settings and not really data). I also thought of > fetching and storing the data from some external source, but then I > need to link each user with some data on this external source. > > I was wondering if activities could help me here. Frankly speaking , I > still haven't understood activites that well yet. Would some one be > able to suggest some examples of activites to me and how they can be > used with an open social application. > > Frankly speaking I need some data store for my application not too > big, may be 1-2 mb, per user per application. > > Regards, > Rohit > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Application Development" 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/opensocial-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
