WiredTiger

WiredTiger
Original author	WiredTiger Inc.
Initial release	2012
Stable release	11.3.1 / 15 November 2024;11 months ago (15 November 2024)
Repository	github.com/wiredtiger/wiredtiger
Written in	C
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	English
Type	NoSQL
Website	wiredtiger.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]

See also

• Ordered key–value store

References

1. "WiredTiger: Snapshots and CheckPoints".
2. "MongoDB Acquires WiredTiger Inc".
3. "First Post: at MongoDB London 5 secs ago, @eliothorowitz just announced that Wired Tiger engine will be in MongoDB 2.8, fully supported". Twitter. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
4. Datadog (2016-01-05). "How Connectifier unfroze MongoDB with Datadog". How Connectifier unfroze MongoDB with Datadog. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
5. "MongoDB: Encryption At Rest".

Further reading

• Wolpe, Toby (February 3, 2015). "MongoDB 3.0 gets ready to roll with WiredTiger engine onboard". ZDNet . Retrieved July 8, 2016.
• Wolpe, Toby (December 16, 2014). "MongoDB snaps up WiredTiger and its storage expert team". ZDNet. Accessed July 8, 2016.
• "MongoDB Buys WiredTiger: Database Move". Information Week . January 16, 2015. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
• "MongoDB 3.0 NoSQL database offers WiredTiger data compression". The Inquirer . February 3, 2015. Archived from the original on February 14, 2015. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
• "MongoDB 3.0 NoSQL database integrates WiredTiger engine and Ops Manager tool". v3.co. February 3, 2015. Retrieved July 8, 2016.(subscription required)
• Plugge, E.; Hows, D.; Membrey, P.; Hawkins, T. (2015). The Definitive Guide to MongoDB: A complete guide to dealing with Big Data using MongoDB. Apress. p. 10. ISBN   978-1-4842-1182-3 . Retrieved July 8, 2016.
• Wolpe, Toby (November 21, 2014). "MongoDB CTO: How our new WiredTiger storage engine will earn its stripes". ZDNet. Retrieved July 8, 2016.