[DOCS-3827] mongoimport does not warn about performance relative to writing your own Created: 27/Jul/14  Updated: 20/Aug/14  Resolved: 20/Aug/14

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: manual
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: v1.3.10

Type: Improvement Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Asya Kamsky Assignee: Sam Kleinman (Inactive)
Resolution: Done Votes: 0
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 Description   

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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