Learning Google App Engine & BigTable

Question

I have a traditional RDBMS based PHP app that I need to convert over to GAE and would like to properly learn how BigTable works prior to doing this. However, I'd kinda like to do it through sample problems or examples that show the maximal way to think about and utilize a non RDBMS platform such as BigTable...

It seems that this would be the best route to take prior to just jumping in and screwing some things up in a one-to-one conversion that would likely happen by the both feet in first method.

Anyone able to recommend a good starting path that perhaps helped you or something of this nature that will properly initiate someone with App Engine and BigTable?

Answer 1

A good way is to see the sources codes of a good projects running in GAE like jaikuengine and rietveld.

For articles, Google IO 2009 and 2010 and GAE articles offer a good resource.

Also you can learn a Column-oriented Database in Wikipedia and see all other projects like cassandra...