pombredanne / meteor-smart-collections

Meteor Collections Re-Imagined

This is a archived project

Smart Collection is now retired & Meteor's Collection implementation has fixes for most of the performance bottlenecks. It is also using the MongoDB oplog just like Smart Collections.

Meteor Smart Collections

This is a complete re-write of the MongoDB Collection implementation for Meteor. Designed with following 3 areas in mind

• Speed
• Efficiency (Memory & CPU)
• Scalability

This is not a toy project! But a complete Collection replacement with a well tested source code. Still we might have bugs :)

Click here for implementation details of Smart Collections

Install

Install Smart Collections from Atmosphere

mrt add smart-collections

Install From Git (If you are not using Meteorite)

mkdir -p packages
#make sure you created the packages folder
git submodule add https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-smart-collections.git packages/smart-collections

Usage

Replace Meteor.Collection with Meteor.SmartCollection. Just that!

eg:-

//old code
Posts = new Meteor.Collection('posts');

//with smart collections
Posts = new Meteor.SmartCollection('posts');

Compatibility

• Almost compatible with exiting Collection API
• But server side Cursor.observe() does not exists
• _id must be a String (will support ObjectID and numbers soon)

Scalability

• Can be easily scaled with mongodb oplog
• Follow this guide on how to scale meteor with Smart Collections.