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by rmason 5544 days ago
Document storage? Saving an html page to a directory could be document storage.

They asked for comment and I think they need to be more specific that's all. If they're using the GAE db imho they should say so.

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Good points. The back end is implemented on App Engine. But we provide an abstracted storage interface. Application can created "documents" (up to 1 MB of JSON, and saved using a HTTP PUT or POST). Our permissions model is based on the document - you can keep a document private to a user, or make it read/write able by others.

In addition, each document can have as many child "blobs" as you want (each blob is up to 1 MB using any format - can be text, png, json, xml, etc.).

Interestingly, each "App" is very similar to a "Document". E.g., you index.html file is a "blob" in the application.