Question: Are the parse limits lifted when hosting your own MongoDB

[TylerBrock]

Before moving completely off of parse, but when MongoDB is hosted externally, are the usual Parse service limits in place?

For example the limits on counts, requests/sec, etc...?

[flovilmart]

There are no limits in place in parse-server.

[TylerBrock]

Right, of course, but I'm wondering about the intermediate stage. The stage when clients still hit api.parse.com but host your own MongoDB.

[mtrezza]

@TylerBrock The limit of API requests per second according to your current Parse.com plan seems to be still in place when you migrate to your own DB. As long as you keep using the Parse.com hosted API. You can see when you hit the limit in the dashboard and requests are not served.

[taufiq-husain]

How about the limits of queries? Usually parse limited queries of upto 1000 entries. Is this lifted in the open-source Parse server?

[mtrezza]

@taufiq-husain No, the limit restriction for query results of 1k objects exists also if you self-host your Parse Server. You can retrieve more objects through paging query.skip = 1000.

I assume the limitations are due to the original intention of Parse being a mobile BaaS. For mobile applications it makes sense to return a limited number of results to the client due to cellular network and mobile device resource limitations. The processing and filtering of data is supposed to happen server-side as much as possible, the client should have as little as possible and as much as necessary a) data to work with and b) data processing tasks. Depending on your use case maybe you can shift some logic to cloud code.

[otmezger]

@mtrezza will have the same limitations as well... In fact, parse.com had a limitation of 1000 elements per query and a max skip of 10000 if I'm not wrong, so that you could only get around 10.000 elements (in cloud code too). I hoped this will go away in self hosted parse-server.

[virtualtoy]

This is weird. This claims that self hosted parse-server doesn't apply limits. Just checked parse-server v.2.2.6 and query returned all 7.7k records

[mtrezza]

@virtualtoy Thanks for pointing this out. My statement back then was based on an actual test query. Did you set the limit parameter to >= 7.7k or not set it at all to fetch the 7.7k records?

[virtualtoy]

@mtrezza I set to 10000. By default it fetches 100 only

[adambarghouthi]

@virtualtoy where did you set it to 10000, because my default is 100 also

[TylerBrock]

Use the limit() method on a Parse Query object.

[adambarghouthi]

oh straight in the code, thanks @TylerBrock !

[kylebakerio]

is this possible through the REST api?

[flovilmart]

Yes, with the limit parameter