I actually JUST discovered oriento and was absolutely delighted to see a bluebird promise-based api. API looks fantastic. Thanks a ton for creating the lib.

Do you have any advise for someone thinking of deploying on GCE?

My use-case would be for an online code editor (Plunker, if you've heard of it) with users, projects, packages, collections (of projects), comments and project versions (stored as content-addressable git-compatible objects).

I'm also interested in understanding if there is any built-in compression mechanism because I will be storing a large volume of very similar text files. Any hints?

Have you used the lucene indexes much? If so, can you do any of the crazy faceting delivered by ElasticSearch?