wiredtiger ☆

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Description:
High performance NoSQL extensible platform for data management

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Databases

Tags: database storage-engine nosql embedded performance

Install: brew install wiredtiger

About:
WiredTiger is an open-source, high-performance storage engine designed for NoSQL databases and data-intensive applications. It provides a flexible, pluggable architecture that handles concurrency, caching, and data compression efficiently. Its primary value is delivering scalable, low-latency data management for embedded and large-scale systems.

Key Features:

Optimistic, fine-grained concurrency control for high throughput
B-tree and LSM tree storage engines with compression (snappy, zlib)
ACID-compliant transactions with MVCC and checkpointing
Pluggable, embeddable API for custom database implementations

Use Cases:

Embedded database backend for custom data stores
High-throughput NoSQL database storage layer
Systems requiring efficient compression and caching

Alternatives:

RocksDB – Similar high-performance embedded engine; RocksDB is LSM-focused with broader ecosystem integrations, while WiredTiger offers flexible B-tree/LSM choices and tight integration with MongoDB.
LMDB – Lightning Memory-Mapped DB focuses on read-heavy workloads with mmap; WiredTiger targets write-heavy, concurrent scenarios with richer transaction and compression features.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 11, 2025 9:09pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	09086714