Software:WiredTiger

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WiredTiger
Original author(s)WiredTiger Inc.
Initial release2012
Written inC
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inEnglish
TypeNoSQL
Websitewiredtiger.com

WiredTiger is a NoSQL, open source extensible platform for data management. It is released under version 2 or 3 of the GNU General Public License. WiredTiger uses multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) architecture.[1]

Details

MongoDB acquired WiredTiger Inc. on December 16, 2014.[2] The WiredTiger storage engine was made available as an optional storage engine in MongoDB 2.8.[3] Early WiredTiger users included Amazon and Connectifier.[2][4] The WiredTiger storage engine is the default storage engine starting in MongoDB version 3.2. It provides a document-level concurrency model, checkpointing, and compression, among other features. In MongoDB Enterprise, WiredTiger also supports encryption at rest.[5]

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