MongoDB 4.0 will support transactions!

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Info here - https://www.mongodb.com/transactions

Hopefully this can be integrated into future Meteor releases :slight_smile:

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Great news! Definitely changes the Meteor value proposition!

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MongoDB 4.0

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This is a very big deal! Are there any database experts here who can weigh in on whether PostGres still has advantages over Mongo?

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surprisingly hilarious post title by the Mongo team haha

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Well, enforced foreign keys would be one if you care about normalization and don’t want to plunk everything into one document (and as a result, cascading DELETEs and stuff)
Stored procedures.
Triggers.
Inner/Outer/Right JOINs
Schema validation by the db itself

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Great to know that one of the biggest pain points for people to adopt MongoDB as the primary data storage is resolved!

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This is a joke, right?

Strongly Typed Schema (see @rhywden’s answer),
Foreign Data Wrappers,
Awesome geospatial capabilities through PostGIS (beats Oracle and MS SQL).

Until your business gets to the size where you need a Big Table kind of solution, Postgres will serve you very well, with everything you need.

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Hilarious alright although non native speakers might be forgiven for thinking they had ACID all along and are dropping (support for) it. :joy:

This is fantastic news!

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Awesome. However it does mean that Meteor is more and more diverging from the Mongo feature set. I find myself using rawCollection more and more. And with the focus on apollo I don’t see any planned efforts to keep Meteor up to par with Mongo capabilities. For now it’s manageable, but when they inevitably drop in a foreign key / data joining system, it might require substantial work to Meteor’s mongo/minimongo system.

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That’s been there for a while: it’s the $lookup operator in the aggregation pipeline (technically, it just acts as a left join, so the minimum useful feature).

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I tend to agree. I use rawCollection() with async/await a lot. Mainly in methods, as the loss of isomorphism in client code can be most effectively ignored there.

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We need this in Meteor ASAP.

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This is awesome news. I really hope we have a future Meteor release to embrace all the new changes in MongoDB - transactions, change streams, etc.

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Right, with transactions, change streams and full support of the aggregation pipelines, I personally don’t need any Apollo or whatsoever anymore…

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Maybe it’s time for Meteor to officially support transactions?