By David Mytton, CEO & Founder of Server Density. Published on the 23rd May, 2012. Perhaps the most oft-cited problem with MongoDB is the infamous global lock. In general terms, this means that the entire server is locked when you perform a write operation. This sounds bad but is actually blown out of proportion compared to the real world in production impact. It has been improved over the version
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