Administration

Integration with MongoDB offers a seamless experience due to its non-relational, schema-free design. Without the constraints of schema migrations, you can streamline your database operations, thus minimizing database administrative overhead.

However, for optimal speed and performance in MongoDB, there are various tasks that experienced MongoDB developers or architects can perform. Management typically spans four distinct levels, each with increasing granularity: process, database, collection, and index.

At the process level, there is the shutDown command to shut down the MongoDB server.

At the database level, you have the following commands:

• dropDatabase: To drop the entire database
• listCollections: To retrieve the collection names in the current database

In comparison, at the collection level, the following commands are used:

• drop: To drop a collection
• create: To create a collection
• renameCollection: To rename a collection...