Re: [CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine

2008-07-18 Thread Doug Chestnut
For an example, check out the bulk loader article (it includes a simple program that searches the datastore by keyword using the SearchableEntity): http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/bulkload.html The last time I tried the bulkloader it had problems with utf8. --Doug On Fri, Jul 18, 2008

Re: [CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine

2008-07-18 Thread Keith Jenkins
Thanks for sharing that, Doug. It's not mentioned at all in the Developer's Guide ("contains everything you need to know"): http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/ I'll have to take a closer look at the src docs... Keith On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Doug Chestnut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: [CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine

2008-07-17 Thread Doug Chestnut
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Keith Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > So it's a bit of a hack just to get a left-anchored search. Querying > for a particular keyword anywhere within a string value would be even > more work. For small datasets, I guess you could iterate through >

Re: [CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine

2008-07-16 Thread Gabriel Farrell
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:40:43AM -0400, Mark A. Matienzo wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Godmar Back <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Aside from the limitations imposed by the index model, the problem > > then is fundamentally similar to how you index MARC data for use in > > any discove

Re: [CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine

2008-07-16 Thread Godmar Back
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Keith Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But for anything larger, you'd probably want to figure > out a way to manually build an index within the Google datastore, or > else keep the indexing outside GAE, and just use GAE for fetching > specified records. Any ide

Re: [CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine

2008-07-16 Thread Mark A. Matienzo
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Godmar Back <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aside from the limitations imposed by the index model, the problem > then is fundamentally similar to how you index MARC data for use in > any discovery system. Presumably, you could learn from the > experiences of the many

Re: [CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine

2008-07-16 Thread Keith Jenkins
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Godmar Back <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aside from the limitations imposed by the index model, the problem > then is fundamentally similar to how you index MARC data for use in > any discovery system. I think Godmar is referring to GAE's lack of keyword searching

Re: [CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine

2008-07-15 Thread Godmar Back
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Fernando Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any thoughts about a convenient way of storing and (more importantly) > indexing & retrieving MARC records using GAE's Bigtable? > GAE uses Django's object-relational model. You can define a Python class, inherit from d

Re: [CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine

2008-07-15 Thread Fernando Gomez
Godmar Back wrote: since I brought up the issue of the Google App Engine (GAE) (or similar services, such as Amazon's EC2 "Elastic Compute Cloud"), I thought I give a brief overview of what it can and cannot do, such that we may judge its potential use for library services. Thanks Godmar for p

[CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine

2008-07-13 Thread Godmar Back
Hi, since I brought up the issue of the Google App Engine (GAE) (or similar services, such as Amazon's EC2 "Elastic Compute Cloud"), I thought I give a brief overview of what it can and cannot do, such that we may judge its potential use for library services. GAE is a cloud infrastructure into wh