Description

MongoDB stores data records as BSON documents gathered in collections (= SQL table). BSON is a binary representation of JSON documents.
MongoDB documents are composed of field-and-value pairs. The value of a field can be any of the BSON data types.

var mydoc = {
               // field _id is a primary key
               _id: ObjectId("5099803df3f4948bd2f98391"),
               // name holds an embedded document that contains the fields first and last
               name: { first: "Alan", last: "Turing" },
               birth: new Date('Jun 23, 1912'),
               death: new Date('Jun 07, 1954'),
               contribs: [ "Turing machine", "Turing test", "Turingery" ],
               views : NumberLong(1250000)
            }

Connect and authenticate

# connect
mongosh mongodb://localhost:27017
# alias
mongosh

# connect and authenticate, use an environment variable to hide the password
mongosh "mongodb://user:${DBPASSWORD}@<host>:<port>/admin?authSource=admin"

Authenticate

db.auth("username", "pwd")

db.auth("username", passwordPrompt())

Database

// list the databases
show dbs

// switch to [dbname]
use [dbname]

// create a new database with a new collection (and insert data)
use [newdbname]
db.[newCollectionName].insertOne( { x: 1 } )

// drop the current database
db.dropDatabase()

Collection

It gathers documents and is an equivalent of an SQL table.
A collection does not require its documents to have the same schema (the same set of fields and the same data types)

// list collections
db.getCollectionInfos()
db.runCommand('listCollections')

db.createCollection("[collectionName]",
{
  [option]: [value]
})

Backup and restore

# restore the backup folder dump to the local mongodb instance
mongorestore dump/

don't know what to do with file while restore

This may happen because the mongorestore command point to a backup sub-folder not to the backup folder itself.

Authentication

// list the users of the current database
db.getUsers()
db.runCommand('usersInfo')

// get info of a specific user
db.getUser("tom", { showCredentials: true, showPrivileges: true, showAuthenticationRestrictions: true })

// create admin
use admin
db.createUser(
  {
    user: "admin",
    pwd: "mypwd",
    roles: [ { role: "userAdminAnyDatabase", db: "admin" } ]
  }
)

// create a user for the demo database
use demo
db.createUser(
  {
    user: "tom",
    pwd: passwordPrompt(), // or cleartext password
    roles: [ { role: "readWrite", db: "demo" },
             { role: "read", db: "finances" } ]
  }
)

// change password
use admin
db.changeUserPassword("tom", "secretpassword")
db.changeUserPassword("tom", passwordPrompt())

// delete a user
db.dropUser("tom")

/etc/mongod.conf

security:
authorization: "enabled"

Bash

mongo <<EOF
    use admin
    db.auth("admin", "${MONGODBADMINPWD}")
    use mydb
    db.dropDatabase()
EOF

Compass

Installation

Windows

choco install mongodb mongodb-shell

Key	Value
Service name	MongoDB
Data directory	C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\6.0\data\
Log directory	C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\6.0\log\

Install the Database Tools in C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Tools

Archlinux

yay mongodb-bin
# install dependencies mongodb-bin-debug, mongosh-bin, mongosh-bin-debug

# GUI
yay mongodb-compass

# tools
yay mongodb-tools

# service
sc-status mongodb.service

Mongodb

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