Follow-up question (reference) - Is there a way to access user entity data in bulk, for all users, via the API browser? Or any other way? I tried but could not find anything.

The previous replies and everything I could find suggests the answer is no, and that the only option for this, while staying with braincloud, is custom entities. Before I go that route, wanted to confirm I'm not missing anything. My use case is very simple player statistics, all simple variables stored as text, and I want to be able to do analytics on that data.

Thank you both for the helpful replies. I am educating myself further and exploring options. Depending on what I decide to pursue as the final option, I may be back

Hi Paul,

Thank you for the reply. If I understand correctly, it sounds like there is no way to access the data generated using the user entities feature, at least not in a meaningful way. I could live with that since it appears custom entities will address that need.

Is there a list of what features to avoid if I want to access the data generated with those features?

Why does braincloud not offer devs access to the database/tables directly? I'm assuming each account does not get their own database, instead its a shared structure of some sort, and this makes it technically challenging to expose the data?

Also, am I missing something fundamental? Access to all important data seems like an absolute necessity, but it appears only a minority of BaaS providers have this feature. How do devs get by without this?

My initial question focused on user entity data, but I really want to know this for all of my data. If I start using other feature sets that do not have a pretty UI export in the portal, how do I access the data for them?

How to export user entities for all users of an app?

I see how to export all user entities for a given user, that doesn't help because I need all users at once, not one by one.

I see how to export all users in the reports section, but even with all options selected, the export does not include user entity data.

Am I missing something or is it not possible?
Surely there is a way to query the tables directly... I see some of the APIs allow for MongoDB style queries, is there a location I can do this at?