Using Google Cloud Datastore with NDB API?

4
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There is a lot of info on using NDB API with Google App Engine Datastore but I can't find any info on how to use NDB with Google Cloud Datastore. The only module I found is googledatastore which is very primitive library.

How is App Engine Datastore different from the Cloud Datastore? Is NDB available for the Cloud Datastore?

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pythongoogle-app-enginegoogle-cloud-datastoregcloud-pythongoogle-cloud-python
Per github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-datastore/issues/2 , the issue of using ndb to access the Google Cloud Datastore is an open one from Google's viepoint -- meanwhile many others are working on higher-abstraction-layer libraries on top of the low-level googledatastore, and you'll find plenty of links and discussions at that URL. – Alex Martelli

2 Answers

5
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NDB support outside of App Engine (using Google Cloud Datastore) is currently in development.

UPDATE: Check out the NDB development discussion on GitHub.

2
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You might want to try using gcloud.datastore (pip install gcloud).

Docs: http://googlecloudplatform.github.io/gcloud-python/

Code: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-python