Great datastore solution and all other things are perfectly managed by Google

What are the best aspects of this product?

You can easily start using AppEngine thanks to its powerful and simple scalable software. You don’t need to require scalability because you can still deploy, create and manage all your cloud based systems without problem. AppEngine platform is under Google and it so easy to manage that all you need to do is to write the core software and you can spend your time on solving issues and when you deploy the app leave everything else to Google, it will take care of running, monitoring and even scaling the software. You don’t need to manage everything and all day-to-day operations. The cloud datastore is integrated with AppEngine, it is simple and it is a NoSQL datastore, you can use it without any problem and I believe you will be satisfied especially with this integration because it provides great performances. When using the AppEngine you can choose from various languages including Java and Python. It is easy to use Python program in AppEngine.

What aspects are problematic or could work better?

Something that I don’t like is the fact that if you need something that it is not included in tunable parameters you cannot do anything about that even though Google provides excellent system that is functional in 90% of cases. The price for datastore is expensive, and costs 0.18$ per GB and that is 9x the cost of other Google’s storage options. If you need to program the datastore it can be tricky when it comes to AppEngine development because it has some limitations.

What specific problems in your company were solved by this product?

When we deploy our systems we don’t need other operational maintenance, and AppEngine offers great availability to all data and projects.

Are you a current user of this product?

Yes