I am writing a web application that requires a database which will have entities like user, friends etc. Since Cloud SQL service is not free so i am looking for alternatives. Amazon RDS is one option, since they have a free tier which would suit my needs in the short term but before I get into it I would like to know more about blobstores.
Is it ideal to use blobstore to store such kind of information?
There are questions like:
- how will the read/write latency be compared to a traditional db ?
- if i start with blobstore and later i want to move to relational db, what are the problems that i could face ?
- The most important of all is, if it is ideal to use blobstore in my scenario.
After looking at the documentation on google dev site I have found that blobstores are used to store large/medium files like images and videos.
You can’t and shouldn’t try to use the blobstore for structured data. That’s what the datastore is for. Blobstore is for unstructured data such as files.