An Example of Checking the Existence of a Collection When working with large-scale databases in MongoDB, it’s important to check if a collection already exists in the database before creating a new collection. In this article, we are going to check if a collection exists on a MongoDB dat...
Now let’s try to drop and backup the database. Drop database command: db.dropDatabase() Restore database command: mongorestore Let’s check the database and collection and data inside collection Backup and Restore Database Collection Let’s create another backup folder called “Backup_Collect...
IfmyCollectiondoes not exist, the command creates it during the insert process. Compared to the previous method, the insert process quickly creates a collection and adds data in a single step. Conclusion This guide showed two methods for creating a collection in MongoDB. A collection organizes d...
Sharding leverages MongoDB's flexible document model to distribute data across shards. Additionally, allows MongoDB to support high throughput operations on large datasets. By distributing data based on a shard key (e.g., a user ID or location), MongoDB ensures that queries are directed to the...
Starting in MongoDB 4.0.2, dropping a collection deletes its associated zone/tag ranges. If you try to drop a collection in the admin database or the config database from amongossince MongoDB 5.0, the drop command and thedb.collection.drop()function will produce an error. Instead, connect...
You can use the Visual Editor or the JSON Editor in the Atlas UI to index fields as the date type. Define the Index for the date Type To define the index for the date type, choose your preferred configuration method in the Atlas UI and then select the database and collection. Visual ...
Now, we’re going to create your collections in the cluster so that we can insert our data. They need to be created now so that you can create an Atlas trigger that will target them. For this tutorial, you can create your own collection if you have data to use. If you’d like to...
We can check it worked by having a look at the content of the “stitch.movies” collection in our MongoDB Atlas Cluster: Now that we can insert a new document into MongoDB Atlas using Stitch, we are going to create the trigger.
Core Concepts Around MongoDB I’ve been saying document databases over and over up to this point, but what actually are they? Here are the main concepts: Documents: data is stored in objects called documents. In simple terms, documents are similar to JSON key-value objects. A single documen...
In this step, you will install PyMongo, the recommended driver for MongoDB from Python. As a collection of tools for working with MongoDB, PyMongo facilitates database requests using syntax and an interface native to Python. To enable PyMongo, open your Ubuntu terminal and instal...