MongoDB's Storage Engine Bit by Bit
Mathias Stern, 10gen
Posted on 2011-12-09
You’ve probably heard that MongoDB uses Memory Mapped Files and supports Journaling. But how exactly does it all fit together? In this advanced internals talk, we’ll dive into the kernel of MongoDB and look at how the databases uses these functions to persist your data. Expect low level database internals, memory hierarchies, and durability models.




