July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
506 pages
16h 2m
English
Because Datastore was purpose-built for App Engine, it makes sense that there are strong App Engine integrations. As we discussed in Chapter 4, Google App Engine, many service integrations for the App Engine standard environment are implemented in platform-specific ways that make it easier to leverage these services from within the platform. This concept holds true for Datastore. App Engine-specific Datastore libraries such as NDB have slightly different interfaces than those of the more general Cloud Client libraries. Additionally, the functionality of App Engine Datastore libraries varies between languages, and some operations that are currently supported in these libraries are not available for broader use. ...