Questions regarding 10GB instance limit

[Daniel Florey]

Hi,

first of all: Congrats to all developers that worked on this project!!

Questions:

Will the 10GB instance limit be increased when the product is out of preview or is this a fixed limit that developers should take into account when choosing between SQL and GAE datastore?

Is the index size comparable to GAE datastore or will it be lower? On App Engine I currently have 58 GBytes of stored data and 231.45 GB of total HR data (=including indexes).

Thanks,

Daniel

[Ken Ashcraft]

> Will the 10GB instance limit be increased when the product is out of preview
> or is this a fixed limit that developers should take into account when
> choosing between SQL and GAE datastore?

We put the limit there primarily to prevent abuse during the Limited
Preview period. When we start charging for the service, you will be
able to pay for more storage. For large amounts of data, the
Datastore will probably be more appropriate because the data is
automatically split over multiple machines.

> Is the index size comparable to GAE datastore or will it be lower? On App
> Engine I currently have 58 GBytes of stored data and 231.45 GB of total HR
> data (=including indexes).

I think it depends on your schema. It is just MySQL, so you can run
MySQL on your local machine, populate your database, add indexes, and
measure the file size on disk.

Ken