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All MongoDb commands you will ever need

(MongoDb Cheatsheet)
In this post, we will see a comprehensive list of all the MongoDB commands you will ever need as a
MongoDB beginner. This list covers almost all the most used commands in MongoDB.

I will assume that you are working inside a collection named 'comments' on a MongoDB database of your
choice

1. Database Commands
View all databases

show dbs

Create a new or switch databases 

use dbName

View current Database

db

Delete Database 

db.dropDatabase()

2. Collection Commands
Show Collections

show collections

Create a collection named 'comments'

db.createCollection('comments')

Drop a collection named 'comments'

db.comments.drop()

3. Row(Document) Commands
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Show all Rows in a Collection 

db.comments.find()

Show all Rows in a Collection (Prettified)

db.comments.find().pretty()

Find the first row matching the object

db.comments.findOne({name: 'Harry'})

Insert One Row

db.comments.insert({

'name': 'Harry',

'lang': 'JavaScript',

'member_since': 5

})

Insert many Rows

db.comments.insertMany([{

'name': 'Harry',

'lang': 'JavaScript',

'member_since': 5

},

{'name': 'Rohan',

'lang': 'Python',

'member_since': 3

},

{'name': 'Lovish',

'lang': 'Java',

'member_since': 4

}])

Search in a MongoDb Database

db.comments.find({lang:'Python'})

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Limit the number of rows in output

db.comments.find().limit(2)

Count the number of rows in the output

db.comments.find().count()

Update a row

db.comments.update({name: 'Shubham'},

{'name': 'Harry',

'lang': 'JavaScript',

'member_since': 51

}, {upsert: true})

Mongodb Increment Operator

db.comments.update({name: 'Rohan'},

{$inc:{

member_since: 2

}})

Mongodb Rename Operator

db.comments.update({name: 'Rohan'},

{$rename:{

member_since: 'member'

}})

Delete Row 

db.comments.remove({name: 'Harry'})

Less than/Greater than/ Less than or Eq/Greater than or Eq

db.comments.find({member_since: {$lt: 90}})

db.comments.find({member_since: {$lte: 90}})

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db.comments.find({member_since: {$gt: 90}})

db.comments.find({member_since: {$gte: 90}})

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Comments
shivanggup Jun 16, 2021

nice

pragupta2007 Jun 10, 2021

Wow Sir! What a nice try for all of us...

qwertysachin3 Jun 7, 2021

WARNING!! Create a collection named 'comments' is needs to be changed
to Delete collection named 'comments'

samuel Jun 6, 2021

THIS COURCE REALLY HELPFULL SIR...!

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