#lock-free

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• Lock-Free Concurrency in MongoDB: Hazard Pointers and Skip Lists Inside WiredTiger

  Mar 1, 2026 10 min read

  How MongoDB's WiredTiger storage engine achieves lock-free reads and writes using hazard pointers, skip lists, and atomic CAS operations.

  • mongodb
  • wiredtiger
  • databases
  • distributed-systems
  • concurrency
  • lock-free