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Explain the impact of Document Growth on performance.
Updated May 1, 2026
Short answer
In WiredTiger, document growth results in rewriting the entire document to a new location.
Deep explanation
While WiredTiger doesn't have the 'padding' issues of the old MMAPv1 engine, frequent growth (e.g., $push to a large array) still increases IO and can lead to fragmentation.
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