Musings & ramblings of a Pythonista
Google App Engine is a widely used and most popular PaaS solution provided by Google. App Engine provides the developer with a wide range of apis which can be used to develop web applications using any WSGI compliant Frameworks (Webapp, Tipfy, Django, Bottle, Tornado etc.). One of the apis App Engine provides is the users api, which most of the developers confuses for an api which provides user creation, authentication ...
After few days of hacking on the Google App Engine SDK and ProtocolBuffers, finally I succeeded in creating a datastore driver for GAE that talks to Hypertable and stores the data there fully protocol buffer encoded. If you want to checkout this implementation head to HyperGAE repository and see files datastore_hypertable_ht.py
and datastore_hypertable_thrift.py
. HyperGAE basically uses two methods to connect to hypertable. Using the thrift api and using ...