Is there an API of Google App Engine provided to better configure the Bigtable besides Datastore?

According to the Bigtable o开发者_C百科riginal article, a column key of a Bigtable is named using "family:qualifier" syntax where column family names must be printable but qualifiers may be arbitrary strings. In the application I am working on, I would like to specify the qualifiers using Chinese words (or phrase). Is it possible to do this in Google App Engine? Is there a Bigtable API other than provided datastore API? It seems Google is tightly protecting its platform for good reasons.

Thanks in advance.

Marvin

The Datastore is the only interface to the underlying storage on App Engine. You should be able to use any valid UTF-8 string as a kind name, key name, or property name, however.