[isbvhodnvemrwvn]

In a tiny bit more detail - mongo uses BSON, which is effectively TLV encoded json. I'm not sure how storage of entire collections is done though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSON

[rualca]

> (...) BSON, which is effectively TLV encoded json.

For those who, like me, never heard of TLV prior to this post, it's type-length-value encoding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-length-value

[swyx]

thanks for the link, you weren't alone