Our client has asked us to use Google App Engine with djangae + the Google App Engine datastore (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;djangae.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;db_backend&#x2F;).  The data was modeled in a relational fashion before I showed up.<p>The bulk of my work over the months has been putting out fires as a result of this setup.<p>The abstraction djangae implements to make data stored in the datastore relational has been too slow for Google App Engine&#x27;s HTTP timeout.<p>P.S. I just started this job as the maintenance programmer, and I feel like I&#x27;ve been unjustly placed in the middle of this mess.  I immediately suggested switching to a relational database but I was told this was a security risk and the datastore must be used.<p>Any advice is appreciated.
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