Mongoose (mongodb) batch insert?

Question

Does Mongoose v3.6+ support batch inserts now? I\'ve searched for a few minutes but anything matching this query is a couple of years old and the answer was

Answer 1

You can perform bulk insert using mongoDB shell using inserting the values in an array.

db.collection.insert([{values},{values},{values},{values}]);

Answer 2

Mongoose 4.4.0 now supports bulk insert

Mongoose 4.4.0 introduces --true-- bulk insert with the model method .insertMany(). It is way faster than looping on .create() or providing it with an array.

Usage:

var rawDocuments = [/* ... */];

Book.insertMany(rawDocuments)
    .then(function(mongooseDocuments) {
         /* ... */
    })
    .catch(function(err) {
        /* Error handling */
    });

Or

Book.insertMany(rawDocuments, function (err, mongooseDocuments) { /* Your callback function... */ });

You can track it on:

• https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/issues/723
• https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/blob/1887e72694829b62f4e3547283783cebbe66b46b/lib/model.js#L1774

Answer 3

Indeed, you can use the "create" method of Mongoose, it can contain an array of documents, see this example:

Candy.create({ candy: 'jelly bean' }, { candy: 'snickers' }, function (err, jellybean, snickers) {
});

The callback function contains the inserted documents. You do not always know how many items has to be inserted (fixed argument length like above) so you can loop through them:

var insertedDocs = [];
for (var i=1; i<arguments.length; ++i) {
    insertedDocs.push(arguments[i]);
}

---

Update: A better solution

A better solution would to use Candy.collection.insert() instead of Candy.create() - used in the example above - because it's faster (create() is calling Model.save() on each item so it's slower).

See the Mongo documentation for more information: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/method/db.collection.insert/

(thanks to arcseldon for pointing this out)

Answer 4

Here are both way of saving data with insertMany and save

1) Mongoose save array of documents with insertMany in bulk

/* write mongoose schema model and export this */
var Potato = mongoose.model('Potato', PotatoSchema);

/* write this api in routes directory  */
router.post('/addDocuments', function (req, res) {
    const data = [/* array of object which data need to save in db */];

    Potato.insertMany(data)  
    .then((result) => {
            console.log("result ", result);
            res.status(200).json({'success': 'new documents added!', 'data': result});
    })
    .catch(err => {
            console.error("error ", err);
            res.status(400).json({err});
    });
})

2) Mongoose save array of documents with .save()

These documents will save parallel.

/* write mongoose schema model and export this */
var Potato = mongoose.model('Potato', PotatoSchema);

/* write this api in routes directory  */
router.post('/addDocuments', function (req, res) {
    const saveData = []
    const data = [/* array of object which data need to save in db */];
    data.map((i) => {
        console.log(i)
        var potato = new Potato(data[i])
        potato.save()
        .then((result) => {
            console.log(result)
            saveData.push(result)
            if (saveData.length === data.length) {
                res.status(200).json({'success': 'new documents added!', 'data': saveData});
            }
        })
        .catch((err) => {
            console.error(err)
            res.status(500).json({err});
        })
    })
})

Answer 5

You can perform bulk insert using mongoose, as the highest score answer. But the example cannot work, it should be:

/* a humongous amount of potatos */
var potatoBag = [{name:'potato1'}, {name:'potato2'}];

var Potato = mongoose.model('Potato', PotatoSchema);
Potato.collection.insert(potatoBag, onInsert);

function onInsert(err, docs) {
    if (err) {
        // TODO: handle error
    } else {
        console.info('%d potatoes were successfully stored.', docs.length);
    }
}

Don't use a schema instance for the bulk insert, you should use a plain map object.

Answer 6

Sharing working and relevant code from our project:

//documentsArray is the list of sampleCollection objects
sampleCollection.insertMany(documentsArray)  
    .then((res) => {
        console.log("insert sampleCollection result ", res);
    })
    .catch(err => {
        console.log("bulk insert sampleCollection error ", err);
    });