Recently, appengine team quietly updated the roadmap page. The latest roadmap shows that the following features will be available in the next six months (most of these features here are intended to be launched within the following six months ):
- Service for storing and serving large files
- Incoming email support
- Support for mapping operations extends SS Datasets
- Cursors for continuing results of datastore queries past the 1000 entity limit
- Alerting System for exceptions in your application
- Datastore dump and restore facility
It seems that the search function is still far away. In addition, it is quite promising. For example, the large file function, maybe you can use Gae to do it yourself. Image Upload and external link services, or getFile Upload/synchronization service, such as Dropbox? In addition, the limit of up to 1000 entries in datastore query will also be broken through the cursor support. In addition, the 'support for mapping operations between SS datasets "does not know what it refers to. Is it map in mapreducce? Hope you have some suggestions.
For comparison, you can see the roadmap released by the appengine team twice (from the official Google appengine blog ): Feb 2009:
- Support for running scheduled tasks
- Task queues for processing Ming background processing
- Ability to receive and process incoming email
- Support for sending and processing ing XMPP (jabber) messages
Oct 2008:
- Service for storing and serving large files
- Datastore Import and Export utility for large-scale databases
- Billing: developers can pay for more resource usage
- Support for a new runtime Language
- Uptime monitoring site
We can see that except for the "service for storing and serving large files" in February, this roadmap was postponed, other feature versions were released as scheduled.
