Writing WiredTiger applications

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

Using the API

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

Storage options

• Schema, Columns, Column Groups, Indices and Projections
• Log-Structured Merge Trees
• File formats and compression
• Bulk-load
• Compressors

Application notes

• Multithreading
• Name spaces
• Signal handling

Performance tuning

• Memory allocator
• Page and overflow item sizes
• Cache configuration
• Bulk-load
• Cursor persistence
• Read-only objects
• Checksums
• Compression
• File allocation
• System buffer cache
• Linux transparent huge pages
• Linux zone reclamation memory management
• Performance monitoring with statistics
• Connection close

Deployment considerations

• Checkpoints
• Compaction
• Hot backup
• Statistics

Extending WiredTiger

• Custom Data Sources
• WiredTiger Helium support

Administering a WiredTiger database

• Database Home Directory
• Database Configuration
• Security