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Reputation: 468

Should GAE Bloblstore be used in place of traditional Database

I am writing a web application that requires a database which will have entities like user, friends etc. Since Cloud SQL service is not free so i am looking for alternatives. Amazon RDS is one option, since they have a free tier which would suit my needs in the short term but before I get into it I would like to know more about blobstores.

Is it ideal to use blobstore to store such kind of information? There are questions like:

  1. how will the read/write latency be compared to a traditional db ?
  2. if i start with blobstore and later i want to move to relational db, what are the problems that i could face ?
  3. The most important of all is, if it is ideal to use blobstore in my scenario.

After looking at the documentation on google dev site I have found that blobstores are used to store large/medium files like images and videos.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 78

Answers (1)

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599610

You can't and shouldn't try to use the blobstore for structured data. That's what the datastore is for. Blobstore is for unstructured data such as files.

Upvotes: 4

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