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my gripes with meteor are: not sure how ddp works or how to scale a meteor app. does not work with postgresql or any other db. The biggest issue for me is the

my gripes with meteor are: not sure how ddp works or how to scale a meteor app. does not work with postgresql or any other db. The biggest issue for me is the tight coupling to MongoDB. Background: we used Meteor back in mid 2013. we ended up wasting a lot of time and resources because we had to learn everything. when we did, it did not perform so well, over 1MB going back and forth for what could've been achieved with a simple LAMP or ROR app. I think they've dropped Meteor completely. Anyways, the windows support is nice. Might give it another go now. Not sure what the deal is with MongoDB 3.0. I've been using postgresql entirely now.

primigenus 12y ago
DDP is very simple. Think of it like REST for websockets. Here is the project page: https://www.meteor.com/ddp https://www.meteor.com/ddp and here is the spec: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/ddp/DDP.md https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/ddp/DDP.... If you have any questions, post them on forums.meteor.com and we'll try to help you out. It's not "tightly coupled" to MongoDB; Mongo is simply the only database that livequery (https://www.meteor.com/livequery https://www.meteor.com/livequery) has implemented support for at the moment. There are community projects for MySQL and PostgreSQL, as well as partially complete drivers for Redis and Elastic. Official (My)SQL support is on the roadmap and will probably appear later this year.
- curiously 12y ago
  any dates on when you might see that happening? postgresql support would be a massive game breaker move.
  - maxharris 12y ago
    I am really excited about Ben Green's work on mysql and postgresql support in Meteor! (Check out my other posts on this page for links to Ben's talks about this work.) https://github.com/numtel/meteor-mysql https://github.com/numtel/meteor-mysql https://github.com/nothingisdead/pg-live-query https://github.com/nothingisdead/pg-live-query
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primigenus 12y ago

DDP is very simple. Think of it like REST for websockets. Here is the project page: https://www.meteor.com/ddp https://www.meteor.com/ddp and here is the spec: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/ddp/DDP.md https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/ddp/DDP.... If you have any questions, post them on forums.meteor.com and we'll try to help you out. It's not "tightly coupled" to MongoDB; Mongo is simply the only database that livequery (https://www.meteor.com/livequery https://www.meteor.com/livequery) has implemented support for at the moment. There are community projects for MySQL and PostgreSQL, as well as partially complete drivers for Redis and Elastic. Official (My)SQL support is on the roadmap and will probably appear later this year.

curiously 12y ago
any dates on when you might see that happening? postgresql support would be a massive game breaker move.
- maxharris 12y ago
  I am really excited about Ben Green's work on mysql and postgresql support in Meteor! (Check out my other posts on this page for links to Ben's talks about this work.) https://github.com/numtel/meteor-mysql https://github.com/numtel/meteor-mysql https://github.com/nothingisdead/pg-live-query https://github.com/nothingisdead/pg-live-query
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