Interesting:
...a single Python process using gevent and pymongo can copy a large MongoDB collection in half the time that mongodump (written in C++) takes, even when the MongoDB client and server are on the same machine.
...a single Python process using gevent and pymongo can copy a large MongoDB collection in half the time that mongodump (written in C++) takes, even when the MongoDB client and server are on the same machine.
2. I'm sure the Mongo devs would accept pull requests for mongodump.
2. Doubt it, and there's no reason for me to write one for them.