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I have recently started on MongodDb and I’m trying to explore on replica sets and crash recovery.
I have read it like journal file are write a head redo log file.
oplog files are those where every write activity will be written to.
What is the difference between these two…?
Do we have oplogs on both the master and the slave…?
Please post any web links that shed some light on this area.
Oplog stores high-level transactions that modify the database (queries are not stored for example), like insert this document, update that, etc. Oplog is kept on the primary and secondaries will periodically poll the master to get newly performed operations (since the last poll). Operations sometimes get transformed before being stored in the oplog so that they are idempotent (and can be safely applied many times).
Journal on the other hand can be switched on/off on any node (primary or secondary), and is a low-level log of an operation for the purpose of crash recovery and durability of a single mongo instance. You can read low-level op like ‘write these bytes to this file at this position’.
NOTE:
Starting in MongoDB 4.0, you cannot turn journaling off for replica set members that use the WiredTiger storage engine.
Source: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/manage-journaling/