MongoDB Cheat Sheet

This cheat sheet is filled with some handy commands to get started with CRUD operations with MongoDB.

I have created a Github Gist to keep all these commands.

1. Insert a single document

db.products.insertOne({ name: 'Product 1', price: 200 })

2. Insert multiple documents - Ordered

db.products.insertMany([
  { name: 'Product 1', price: 200 },
  { name: 'Product 2', price: 100 }
])

3. Insert multiple documents - Unordered

db.products.insertMany(
  [
    { name: 'Product 1', price: 200 },
    { name: 'Product 2', price: 100 }
  ],
  { ordered: false }
)

4. Select all documents in a collection

db.products.find()

5. Beautify returned collection

db.products.find().pretty()

6. Find all documents that satisfy the specified query criteria

db.products.find({ status: 1 })

7. Find first document that satisfies the specified query criteria

db.products.findOne({ status: 1 })

8. Find the first document in the collection

db.products.findOne({})

9. Returns the number of documents that match a query

db.products.count()

db.products.find({ price: { $gt: 100 } }).count()

db.products.countDocuments()

10. Updates a single document based on the filter

db.products.updateOne({ name: 'Product 1' }, { $set: { price: 210 } })

11. Updates all documents that match the specified filter

db.products.updateMany({ quantity: 0 }, { $set: { status: 0 } })

12. Replace an entire document

db.products.updateOne(
  { name: 'Product 1' },
  { name: 'Product 11', price: 300, status: 0 }
)

13. Removes a single document from a collection

db.products.deleteOne({ name: 'Product 1' })

14. Removes all documents that match the filter

db.products.deleteMany({ price: { $gte: 100 } })

15. Removes all documents in a collection

db.products.deleteMany({})

16. Deletes a single document based on the filter and returning the deleted document

db.products.findOneAndDelete({ name: 'Product 1' })

17. Sort the documents - Ascending Order

db.products.find().sort({ price: 1 })

18. Sort the documents - Descending Order

db.products.find().sort({ price: -1 })

19. Limit the numbers of documents returned

db.products.find().limit(5)

20. Increments the value of the field by the specified amount

db.products.updateOne({ title: 'Product 1' }, { $inc: { quantity: 1 } })

21. Decrement the value of the field by the specified amount

db.products.updateOne({ title: 'Product 1' }, { $inc: { quantity: -1 } })

22. Add an item to an array

db.products.updateOne({ _id: 1 }, { $push: { sizes: 'small' } })

23. Remove the first item from an array

db.products.updateOne({ _id: 1 }, { $pop: { sizes: -1 } })

24. Remove the last item from an array

db.products.updateOne({ _id: 1 }, { $pop: { sizes: 1 } })

25. Add multiple items to an array

db.products.updateOne(
  { _id: 1 },
  { $push: { sizes: { $each: ['small', 'large', 'medium'] } } }
)

26. Add an item to an array unless the item is already present

db.products.updateOne({ _id: 1 }, { $addToSet: { sizes: 'large' } })

27. Sets the value of a field to the current date

db.products.updateOne({ _id: 1 }, { $currentDate: { lastModified: true } })

28. Update the field if the specified value is less than the current value of the field

db.products.updateOne({ _id: 1 }, { $min: { price: 150 } })

29. Update the field if the specified value is greater than the current value of the field

db.products.updateOne({ _id: 1 }, { $max: { price: 250 } })

30. Multiply the value of a field by a number

db.products.updateOne({ _id: 1 }, { $mul: { quantity: 2 } })

31. Rename a field

db.products.updateOne({ _id: 1 }, { $rename: { quantity: 'qty' } })

32. Deletes a particular field

db.products.updateOne({ _id: 1 }, { $unset: { quantity: '' } })

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