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Eh, Wired Tiger was built outside of Mongo (http://www.wiredtiger.com/ http://www.wiredtiger.com/), and does seem to be legitimately decent.
by lclarkmichalek 12y ago
Eh, Wired Tiger was built outside of Mongo (http://www.wiredtiger.com/ http://www.wiredtiger.com/), and does seem to be legitimately decent.
- hendzen 12y agoAs a funny quirk of history, Michael Cahill, the founder of WiredTiger (and now a MongoDB employee), is the primary author of "Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases" [0] the paper that introduced Serializable Snapshot Isolation (SSI). SSI is the concurrency control mechanism used in Postgres [1][2]. [0] - https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse444/08au/544M/READING-LIST/fekete-sigmod2008.pdf https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse444/08au/544M/R... [1] - https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SSI https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SSI [2] - http://drkp.net/papers/ssi-vldb12.pdf http://drkp.net/papers/ssi-vldb12.pdf
- kosma 12y ago...and their most important improvement isn't even their own. I'm not a fan of bashing any product, but after using MongoDB in several projects, in legitimate document database use cases, I just can't find any bright side.
- lclarkmichalek 12y agoOh, I can't stand Mongo. But I have nothing but respect for the Wild Tiger guys, and wouldn't want to see them slandered ;)