Meteor with mysql

Question

I\'m curious to know if meteor can be connected to or display the contents of RDBMS, such as mysql. I have a database that is constantly changing and, if I can use meteor as

Answer 1

Basically, there are 3 ways to achieve this:

1.- Use SQL Sintax in client side: Get rid of minimongo limitations on grouping and unions. Use Alasql on the client and normalize mongo collections.

2.- Use a SQL Connector: Try numltel's MySql connector. The disadvantage is it breaks deployments to meteor.

3.- Use mongo as a slave for relational database, keeping them in synch. MySql Shadow uses this. Also you might want to look at symmetric.ds to set mongo bidirectional replication with a lot of Sql engines.

I have collected my research in this repo:

https://github.com/vchigne/sqlAndMeteor

Answer 2

Mysql can definitely be used instead of mongoDB, but making the app reactive with a mysql backend might be tricky.

I did find this talk on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJzulpXZn6g

That might make your solution easier.

Answer 3

Hi currently there is one package Numtel MySQL which not only support MySQL query but it support publication and subscription reactive pattern which is perfect match for running meteor App, We have used this package in our production app.

Sample code for Numtel MySQL package is placed at GitHub.

As meteor backed is Nodejs you can use supported packages like mysqljs and one example article for Meteor app is also posted by robfallows on Meteor blogs.

Hope this will answer your question.

Answer 4

From http://docs.meteor.com

You can substitute another database for MongoDB by providing a server-side database driver and/or a client-side cache that implements an alternative API. The mongo-livedata is a good starting point for such a project.

So, it is possible. Right now, there is no mention of any RDBMS in meteor project, someone might have started such project/plugin. Or you can implement it based on mongo-livedata implementation.

Answer 5

I have used Meteor-mysql package to implement realtime application with mysql database. There is a small bit of configuration required to change mysql to output binary log, but the rest of the stuff is completely flawless and smooth. Hope this helps

Answer 6

https://github.com/drorm/meteor-sql is an implementation of livedata for mysql. It's only just been released so it might still contain a few bugs but I think you will find it up there as a viable option.