Mongoose: what's the differences between Model.create and Collection.insert
In Mongoose, there is Model.create and Collection.insert (the latter isn't strictly part of Mongoose, but of the underlying MongoDB driver).
According to the Mongoose developer, they are basically the same when called with an array of documents, although looking at the code makes me think that there are subtle differences (warning: I haven't looked at the code that well so I might be mistaken about the following):
- using
Model.createwill call any validators/hooks declared on your schema; Model.createdoes a.savefor each document in the array, resulting inNdatabase calls (whereNis the number of documents in the array);Collection.insertperforms one large database call;