Google App Engine

2008-04-08T14:35:42Z in python, web

Google App Engine is the Python news of the day. Python, WSGI, and Bigtable (well, non-relational datastores generally) are 3 things I've been telling geospatial folks to keep an eye on.

Via Simon Willison.

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1Re: Google App Engine

Yves Moisan, 2008-04-08T17:26:07Z

"and Bigtable (well, non-relational datastores generally)"; "The App Engine scalable datastore stores and performs queries over data objects," Do you know if it's pickled Python objects in a file (like the ZODB) or Google's own object database that stores objects in another language ?

2Re: Google App Engine

Sean, 2008-04-08T17:51:06Z

Yves, I don't know much about the GFS, but it's not that kind of an object database.

3Re: Google App Engine

Paolo, 2008-04-08T19:42:08Z

anyway seems that is already late to get the preview account :-(, it is only for the first 10.000 developers: could you manage to get it?

4Re: Google App Engine

Sean, 2008-04-08T22:00:02Z

I didn't apply. Too damn busy. Josh Livni found what looks like the first neo-geo app. If the App Engine were to add a KML/GML geometry model, a spatial index, and something like Shapely, you could really make some cool geo applications.

5Re: Google App Engine

Yves Moisan, 2008-04-09T12:15:01Z

An interesting blog post about the Google datastore : Ivan Krstić's Will Google fulfill the promise of WinFS?

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