Meteor scalability

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Hi guys! Sorry for the “common” topic’s name, but i’ve facing some “issues” and i need to be reassured!

In the last period i was reading the forum and i’m a bit confused on what is happening to Meteor, but that’s not a problem, i’m a newbie and i need time to understand things :smiley:.
But i’m worried about one argument, the Scalability one. I read that Meteor works nicely with medium-size apps but has scalability problems with large-ones.
My question is: What does this imply? I mean: The fact that Meteor doesn’t scale well with large-apps, means that it can’t handle high-activity apps(it’s impossible to create large-apps?) or that it can handle large-apps but it needs more “machines”(power) to scale compared to another language + framework?
The first fact will imply the necessity to switch to another language for large-apps?
How an app is defined as “large” and “medium”?

I love Meteor, and i want to thank the MDG for the hard work and the wonderful community that helped me a lot since i started :smiley: .Also i’d like to continue with Meteor but i need some answers from you :smile:
Thanks fellows!

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Scalability won’t be an issue.

At start you can start with a what Mongo. As your app grows you can move your app’s different parts to different efficient data layers. GraphQL is a such a one way.

We are currently working on Mantra which enforce that flexibility.

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Thanks for the information arunoda! I’ll check the GraphQL and look forward Mantra!

Are there some breakdown points when an app becomes “large” from a “medium” size?

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It’s hard to tell. But you’ll be able to see it when it’s in production.
The thing is you don’t need to worry much.

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Thanks arunoda! I was overthinking too much :smile: