MongoDB Beginner To Advanced With Practical Code Snippet Example

Here is some keynote for using MongoDB. In this tutorial, you will learn all the necessary command which is mostly used in MongoDB. I give some simple examples for you. Before starting make sure you have MongoDB installed in your system.

Show All Databases

show dbs

Show Current Database

db

Create Or Switch Database

use acme

Drop

db.dropDatabase()

Create Collection

db.createCollection('posts')

Show Collections

show collections

Insert Row

db.posts.insert({
  title: 'Post One',
  body: 'Body of post one',
  category: 'News',
  tags: ['news', 'events'],
  user: {
    name: 'John Doe',
    status: 'author'
  },
  date: Date()
})

Insert Multiple Rows

db.posts.insertMany([
  {
    title: 'Post Two',
    body: 'Body of post two',
    category: 'Technology',
    date: Date()
  },
  {
    title: 'Post Three',
    body: 'Body of post three',
    category: 'News',
    date: Date()
  },
  {
    title: 'Post Four',
    body: 'Body of post three',
    category: 'Entertainment',
    date: Date()
  }
])

Get All Rows

db.posts.find()

Get All Rows Formatted

db.posts.find().pretty()

Find Rows

db.posts.find({ category: 'News' })

Sort Rows

# asc
db.posts.find().sort({ title: 1 }).pretty()
# desc
db.posts.find().sort({ title: -1 }).pretty()

Count Rows

db.posts.find().count()
db.posts.find({ category: 'news' }).count()

Limit Rows

db.posts.find().limit(2).pretty()

Chaining

db.posts.find().limit(2).sort({ title: 1 }).pretty()

Foreach

db.posts.find().forEach(function(doc) {
  print("Blog Post: " + doc.title)
})

Find One Row

db.posts.findOne({ category: 'News' })

Find Specific Fields

db.posts.find({ title: 'Post One' }, {
  title: 1,
  author: 1
})

Update Row

db.posts.update({ title: 'Post Two' },
{
  title: 'Post Two',
  body: 'New body for post 2',
  date: Date()
},
{
  upsert: true
})

Update Specific Field

db.posts.update({ title: 'Post Two' },
{
  $set: {
    body: 'Body for post 2',
    category: 'Technology'
  }
})

Increment Field ($inc)

db.posts.update({ title: 'Post Two' },
{
  $inc: {
    likes: 5
  }
})

Rename Field

db.posts.update({ title: 'Post Two' },
{
  $rename: {
    likes: 'views'
  }
})

Delete Row

db.posts.remove({ title: 'Post Four' })

Sub-Documents

db.posts.update({ title: 'Post One' },
{
  $set: {
    comments: [
      {
        body: 'Comment One',
        user: 'Mary Williams',
        date: Date()
      },
      {
        body: 'Comment Two',
        user: 'Harry White',
        date: Date()
      }
    ]
  }
})

Find By Element in Array ($elemMatch)

db.posts.find({
  comments: {
     $elemMatch: {
       user: 'Mary Williams'
       }
    }
  }
)

Add Index

db.posts.createIndex({ title: 'text' })

Text Search

db.posts.find({
  $text: {
    $search: "\"Post O\""
    }
})

Greater & Less Than

db.posts.find({ views: { $gt: 2 } })
db.posts.find({ views: { $gte: 7 } })
db.posts.find({ views: { $lt: 7 } })
db.posts.find({ views: { $lte: 7 } })

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