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  1. Documentation
  2. DOCS-3827

mongoimport does not warn about performance relative to writing your own

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    • Resolution: Done
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      We repeatedly hear from people that they assume that since mongoimport ships with MongoDB that it would be faster than anything they could write with a driver.

      The fact is the opposite at least until the SERVER tickets to have mongoimport run batch reads, writes and multiple parallel threads are addressed.

      I believe we should have right on the mongoimport page a NOTE (like we do for type non-preservation) that mongoimport is singlethreaded and sends one document at a time, and therefore anything reasonable written by the enduser should be able to perform much better.

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            sam.kleinman Sam Kleinman (Inactive)
            asya.kamsky@mongodb.com Asya Kamsky
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              9 years, 29 weeks, 3 days ago