mongodb geoNear vs near

Question

It looks like mongodb offers two similar functions for geospatial queries - $near and $geoNear. According to the mongo docs

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Answer 1

The 100 documents limit with GeoNear is the default behaviour but you can just set the num fields as described on the mongodb documentation (http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/command/geoNear/)

Default is set to 100 but you can set more. Unfortunately skip parameter is missing for the moment (see https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-3925)