MongoDB 4.0 and related announcements

Just watched the keynote of the MongoDB World conference - MongoDB Evolved – Version History | MongoDB

Quite a wish list covered. I would be very excited to see most (or just some) being supported by Meteor. I think it would be a nice “adrenaline shot” to Meteor…

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Agreed. With Ben Newman’s amazing work in v1.7 supporting optimized app packages for modern browsers – and the recent addition to Meteor of exact code splittingand @diaconutheodor 's recent working making relational lookups in Mongo about as fast as they are in SQL – and of course with @diaconutheodor 's redisoplog – and with transactions being added to Mongo – Meteor is looking more fantastic than ever.

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I was at the conference last week; the keynote was totally nuts. I can’t believe all of the stuff Mongo is coming out with these days. Really incredible.

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@veered, can you mention a few here that you found most interesting?

(1) ACID compliance in Mongo 4.0
(2) Meteor-like functionality: browser-side mongo updates with declarative permissioning, minimongo like functionality for mobile (local db + latency compensation)
(3) New UI for aggregation pipeline creation
(4) New analytics and visualization tool
(5) In-browser UI for editing the db & creating indices (very powerful when combined w/ performance advisor)
(6) All the random connectors (SQL interface, ODBC interface for excel)
(7) Improvements to change streams that might make replacing the oplog possible
(8) Automatic regional sharding & latency measurement in Atlas

And that’s just off the top of my head. There was SO much stuff. Apparently in 2016-2017 they spent a quarter of a billion dollars on R&D.

They are the only database company to go public in the past 20 years; the amount of effort being poured into Mongo development is just absurd. They are addressing pretty much every concern people traditionally have around Mongo.

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(9) Stitch Triggers… Lots of possibilities here…
(10) Type conversions

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The type conversions in aggregations are so awesome. Major pain point.

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My personal favorite is how they made it easy in Atlas to manage instances across the globe. Would love to see something similar in Galaxy.

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If only Atlas pricing was more reasonable…

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Oh, I’m so excited!

ACID-compliance was way too important for my sphere, It was such a shame to switch off Meteor && mongodb.

Now that I’m switching job, I was already lit enough, thx to Meteor 1.7 & @diaconutheodor’s selfless support of grapher( Try it if u haven’t, folks! ). It was so fun getting mind-stuck, when people related to “wrong” (actual) mongodb, rather than grapher-flavored.

Really glad they got serious, this year is gonna be wonderful and its great to be back.

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A lot of people are changing their minds about MongoDB with this new release. I really hope Meteor reflects that enthusiasm and updates their MongoDB package. I also think Change Streams are worth exploring. It would all fit nicely together.

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Change streams would be great. For the uninitiated here is the feature request:

Other PRs related to MongoDB:

Really looking forward to this one (how is it going @mpowaga ?):

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When would we see MongoDB 4 support in Meteor?

I need to use $convert.

it will be part of 1.8 which should be released RSN

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