Writing WiredTiger applications

This section covers topics of interest for programmers writing WiredTiger applications:

• Getting Started with the API
• Configuration Strings
• Error handling

• Cursors
• Multithreading

• Schemas
• File formats and compression
• Log-Structured Merge Trees

• Transactions
• Cache configuration
• Checkpoints
• Hot backup

• Compressors

• Database Home Directory
• Database Configuration
• Programmatic name spaces
• Security
• Signal handling
• Performance Tuning