When to close MongoDB database connection in Nodejs

Question

Working with Nodejs and MongoDB through Node MongoDB native driver. Need to retrieve some documents, and make modification, then save them right back. This is an example:

Answer 1

I found that using counter may apply to simple scenario, but may be hard in complicated situations. Here is a solution that I come up by closing the database connection when database connection is idle:

var dbQueryCounter = 0;
var maxDbIdleTime = 5000; //maximum db idle time

var closeIdleDb = function(connection){
  var previousCounter = 0;
  var checker = setInterval(function(){
    if (previousCounter == dbQueryCounter && dbQueryCounter != 0) {
        connection.close();
        clearInterval(closeIdleDb);
    } else {
        previousCounter = dbQueryCounter;
    }
  }, maxDbIdleTime);
};

MongoClient.connect("mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/testdb", function(err, connection)(
  if (err) throw err;
  connection.collection("mycollection").find({'a':{'$gt':1}}).toArray(function(err, docs) {
    dbQueryCounter ++;
  });   
  //do any db query, and increase the dbQueryCounter
  closeIdleDb(connection);
));

This can be a general solution for any database Connections. maxDbIdleTime can be set as the same value as db query timeout or longer.

This is not very elegant, but I can't think of a better way to do this. I use NodeJs to run a script that queries MongoDb and Mysql, and the script hangs there forever if the database connections are not closed properly.