MongoDB CRUD

This section covers the basics of CRUD operations, including:

  • Adding new documents to a collection
  • Selecting documents
  • Updating existing documents
  • Removing documents from a collection

Section 1. Adding new documents to a collection

  • insertOne() – show you how insert a single document into a collection.
  • insertMany() – learn how to insert multiple documents into a collection.

Section 2. Selecting documents

  • findOne() – show you how to query a single document.
  • find() – learn how to query documents from a collection.
  • Projection – guide you on how to specify the fields to return in the matching document.

Section 3. Selecting documents using comparison query operators

  • $eq – select documents where the value of a field is equal to a specified value.
  • $gt – select documents where the value of a field is greater than a specified value.
  • $gte – select documents where the value of a field is greater than or equal to a specified value.
  • $lt – select documents where the value of a field is less than a specified value.
  • $lte – select documents where the value of a field is less than or equal to a specified value.
  • $ne – select documents where the value of a field is not equal to a specified value.
  • $in – select documents where the value of a field equals any value in an array
  • $nin – select documents where the value of a field doesn’t equal any value in an array

Section 4. Selecting documents using logical query operators

  • $and – show you how to perform a logical AND operator to select documents.
  • $or – guide you on how to perform a logical OR operator to find documents.
  • $not – learn how to perform a logical NOT operator to query documents.
  • $nor – show you how to use the logical NOR operator to select documents.

Section 5. Selecting documents using element query operators

  • $exists – select documents where a field exists.
  • $type – select documents where the value of a field is an instance of a BSON type.

Section 6. Querying arrays

  • $size – select documents if they have an array field with a specified size.
  • $all – select documents that have an array with all elements specified in a query.
  • $elemMatch – select documents if the element in the array field matches all the specified queries.

Section 7. Sorting & Limiting

  • sort() – show you how to sort returned documents by one or more fields in ascending and descending orders.
  • limit() – learn how to specify the number of documents returned by a query.

Section 8. Updating documents

  • updateOne() – show you how to update a single document that satisfies a condition.
  • updateMany() – learn how to update multiple documents that match a condition.
  • $inc – increase/decrease field values
  • $min –  update the value of a field to a specified value if the specified value is less than the current value of the field.
  • $max – update the value of a field to a specified value if the specified value is greater than the current value of the field.
  • $mul – multiply the value of a field by a number.
  • $unset – remove one or more fields from a document.
  • $rename – rename a field in a document

Section 9. Deleting documents

  • deleteOne() – delete a single document from a collection.
  • deleteMany() – delete all documents that match a condition from a collection.