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MongoDB Internal Architecture | The Backend Engineering Show

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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The B3 Is a Unique Identifier, Right?

The pointer of this unique identifier is something called the disk locations. So with one single read, you can go exactly to that location. That's why the document also have a fixed size. You can't go beyond certain size because of these limitations. The front end is responsible to parse the bytes to actually find documents per say, right?

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