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pm24601 on Jan 20, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The State of Meteor Part 1: What Went Wrong

We used meteor at my last company. By far and away the biggest issue was being stuck with Mongo. NoSQL databases have their place. But they are not a universal solution to everything (or even most things).

Relational DBs exist for a reason.

Being stuck with Mongo is the major reason why I wouldn't use meteor again.

The other stuff was minor and had solutions. We also built an open source library that wrapped up collections well.

https://atmospherejs.com/patmoore/meteor-collection-manageme...

dack on Jan 20, 2016 [–]

Yeah this might be one of the biggest complaints about Meteor, and is definitely valid. It's being worked on actively!

pm24601 on Jan 20, 2016 | [–]

Good to hear. Most data resides in RDBs. If Meteor can't access that data.... Meteor limits itself.

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