Bulk mongodb insert in Meteor or Node

Question

MongoDB supports bulk insert http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/bulk-inserts/

I have tried it in Meteor collection:

Orders.insert([
    { "cust_id" : "A123", "amount" : 500, "status" : "A", "_id" : "iZXL7ewBDALpic8Fj" },
    { "cust_id" : "A123", "amount" : 250, "status" : "A", "_id" : "zNrdBAxxeNZQ2yrL9" },
    { "cust_id" : "B212", "amount" : 200, "status" : "A", "_id" : "vev3pjJ8cmiDHHxe4" },
    { "cust_id" : "A123", "amount" : 300, "status" : "D", "_id" : "BBLngRhS76DgeHJQJ" }
]);

but it creates just

{ "0" : { "cust_id" : "A123", "amount" : 500, "status" : "A", "_id" : "iZXL7ewBDALpic8Fj"},
"1" : { "cust_id" : "A123", "amount" : 250, "status" : "A", "_id" : "zNrdBAxxeNZQ2yrL9" }, 
"2" : { "cust_id" : "B212", "amount" : 200, "status" : "A", "_id" : "vev3pjJ8cmiDHHxe4" }, 
"3" : { "cust_id" : "A123", "amount" : 300, "status" : "D", "_id" : "BBLngRhS76DgeHJQJ" }, 
"_id" : "6zWayeGtQCdfS65Tz" }

I need it for performance testing purposes. I need to fill and test database with thousands of testing items. I do inserts in foreach, but it takes too long to fill database.

Is here any workaround? Or can we expect Meteor will support this in next versions?

Answer 1

You could use exec (nodejs docs) to run a mongo script inside of meteor inside of a Meteor.startup on the server.

Example:

Meteor.startup(function () {
    var exec = Npm.require('child_process').exec;
    exec('mongo localhost:27017/meteor path-to/my-insert-script.js', function ( ) {
       // done
    });        
});

Not optimum, but I think it's your best bet for now. You can also use the command line option --eval against Mongo in exec and pass the insert statement as a string to exec. That might look like this:

Meteor.startup(function () {
    var exec = Npm.require('child_process').exec;
    exec('mongo localhost:27017/meteor --eval \'db.Orders.insert(' + JSON.stringify(arrOfOrders) + ')\'', function ( ) {
       // done
    });        
});