What is "wiredtiger"

WiredTiger is a high performance, scalable, production quality, NoSQL, Open Source extensible platform for data management. WiredTiger uses MultiVersion Concurrency Control ( MVCC) architecture.

MongoDB acquired WiredTiger Inc. on December 16, 2014. 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.