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If you're a meteor user you probably wouldn't notice the differences early on because livequery does a phenomenal job abstracting all the hard work away. However, we anticipate two advantages in the later stages of app development.

Firstly, as the app scales, livequery has to work harder and harder. I don't know how good its scalability is at the moment, but I think it would be very hard to approach the scalability of the feeds built into the database.

Secondly, as we build feed support into more and more queries, you'll be able to get functionality unavailable in livequery, which will allow building more sophisticated realtime experiences than currently possible.

We're going to find out how all these components work together in practice in the next few months. I'm really looking forward to that!