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I started to use MongoDB at work so far so good.
I was wondering though how does MongoDB deal with concurrent updates ?
I’ve read that there is no locking feature in MongoDB so I was wondering what is the the common practice to deal with this.
Thanks.
MongoDB used a process wide write lock to guarantee that only one write operation (update/insert/remove) can be performed at a time. As such it automatically solves concurrency issues since write concurrency simply isn’t allowed.
If 4 threads attempt an update operation one of them will take the write lock, do its update and release the lock. After that one of the remaining 3 will grab the lock, do its update, etc.
Concurrency only comes into play if your operation cannot be wrapped in a single write operation. Note that for the most common usecase (find a doc, update it and grab the new version atomically) MongoDB offers the “findAndModify” command which does just that : http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/findAndModify+Command
UPDATE : Locking is more granular these days.