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by pickle27 3896 days ago
I disagree - do they still lock you to their db? if they do then you are going to have to do a lot of work if you want to move to a different platform
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jonwayne 3896 days ago
Absolutely not. You can use Cloud Datastore, or you can connect to any database that can communicate over sockets or http, including Cloud SQL. Of note is that Datastore has a free tier, Cloud SQL does not, and Socket usage can incur (some) cost when communicating with other databases.

I've seen many Python apps that connect to a free MongoDB instance hosted on Mongolab.

(also worth noting that Node.js support for App Engine is currently in beta.)

(disclaimer: I work for Google on Cloud Platform)

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jay_kyburz 3896 days ago
> also worth noting that Node.js support for App Engine is currently in beta.

Is this public? I have been waiting to hear this for ages! Great News.

I am planning a switch to node simply so I can run the same code on the front and back end. I was not looking forward to learning how to administer a server.

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jonwayne 3895 days ago
Check out https://cloud.google.com/nodejs
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jay_kyburz 3896 days ago
Oh, do you mean as a managed VM?
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jonwayne 3895 days ago
Yes.
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pickle27 3896 days ago
cool I didn't know that - thanks for the info!
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