WiredTiger is a

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extensible platform for data management. It is released under version 2 or 3 of the

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. WiredTiger uses

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(MVCC) architecture.

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acquired WiredTiger Inc. on December 16, 2014. The WiredTiger storage engine was made available as an optional storage engine in MongoDB 2.8. Early WiredTiger users included

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and

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. 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.

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