Database and collection operations
Creating, renaming and dropping databases and collections, and reading their stats.
Checked against v1.11.0 Updated
- Create databases and collections from the sidebar. Creating a database also creates its first collection, named _init by default
- Database names accept letters, numbers, underscores, and hyphens. Collection names also accept dots
- Rename, clear (remove all documents), and drop collections. Rename and drop databases
- A database rename preserves each collection’s documents, indexes, validator, and creation options, and recreates views as views
- Copy or duplicate a database or collection, carrying documents and indexes (Pro)
- Per-database statistics: collection count, data size, storage size, index size
- Per-collection statistics: document count, average document size, data size, storage size, index count and size
- Destructive actions require explicit confirmation and honor connection write protection