Where is my local App Engine datastore?

Question

How can I find where my local development datastore is located? I am using the Python SDK and Linux.

Answer 1

For Python u can make access to datastore admin interface path:' /_ah/' or

add the app handler to app.yaml

- url: /admin/.*
  script: $PYTHON_LIB/google/appengine/ext/admin
  login: admin

and access it at /admin/

Answer 2

I'll restate a solution to getting permanent datastore as it worked for me (circa Feb 2017), running GoogleAppEngineLauncher on OS X v10.10.

• Create the folder path for permanent datastore
• In GAEL, click on the project in question e.g. PROJECTNAME
• Click Edit-Application Settings

• in Extra Flags field:

  --datastore_path=/Users/foo/GAE_datastore/PROJECTNAME/datastore.db

Filename has to be included; in my config, datastore.db works.

Having searched all over for GAE datastore path, and head-bonked on dev_appserver.py --datastore_path command line, it was very helpful to find this.

Application Settings under the Edit menu is an odd choice, Google :-)

Answer 3

I use OS X Mavericks (10.9), Python 2.7.5, and Google App Engine SDK 1.9.3 (Python). None of the above worked for me, however, referencing @alsmola's answer, I executed sudo find / | grep datastore.db and found the file in /private/var/folders/vw/7w1zhkls4gb1wd8r160c36300000gn/T/appengine.YYYY.XXXXX/datastore.db (YYYY is the project name, XXXXX is my username).

Answer 4

I'm using Windows 7 with the Python SDK. My local datastore is located at

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Temp\dev_appserver.datastore

Answer 5

I think a lot of the answers on this page are out of date. Under the current Python dev kit (1.8.6) on Windows 7 I eventually found the datastore at:

c:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Temp\appengine.[appname]\datastore.db

I couldn't find this info in anything dev_appserver.py printed out, either with normal startup options or with --help. On other OSes you might try searching for a file called datastore.db.

Answer 6

With Maven the files are sitting here:

target/{buildName}/WEB-INF/appengine-generated/