"Ryan Barrett — the man behind App Engine's datastore posted a really nice reply a few months ago. For some reason, Disqus sent the reply via e-mail but never showed it here, so here it is for the sake of completeness: -------------------------------------- thanks for the post! we're always interested in well-reasoned feedback like this. it probably won't surprise you that most of the answers here boil down to priorities. we'd love to implement most of these, but we're not a big team, so we have to prioritize ruthlessly. i can address a few points specifically, though. 2) agreed! unfortunately, datastore backend support for this is unlikely due to the underlying implementation on bigtable. happily, this is entirely possible in userland. my groups post has more details: http://groups.google.com/group...... . brett slatkin's recent i/o talk is also related, specifically the relation indexes/entities part: http://code.google.com/events...... . 3) we actually..."
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