208
votes

Is it possible to show all collections and its contents in MongoDB?

Is the only way to show one by one?

8

8 Answers

313
votes

Once you are in terminal/command line, access the database/collection you want to use as follows:

show dbs
use <db name>
show collections

choose your collection and type the following to see all contents of that collection:

db.collectionName.find()

More info here on the MongoDB Quick Reference Guide.

153
votes

Step 1: See all your databases:

show dbs

Step 2: Select the database

use your_database_name

Step 3: Show the collections

show collections

This will list all the collections in your selected database.

Step 4: See all the data

db.collection_name.find() 

or

db.collection_name.find().pretty()
46
votes

step 1: Enter into the MongoDB shell.

mongo

step 2: for the display all the databases.

show dbs;

step 3: for a select database :

use 'databases_name'

step 4: for statistics of your database.

db.stats()

step 5: listing out all the collections(tables).

show collections

step 6:print the data from a particular collection.

db.'collection_name'.find().pretty()

37
votes
var collections = db.getCollectionNames();
for(var i = 0; i< collections.length; i++){    
   print('Collection: ' + collections[i]); // print the name of each collection
   db.getCollection(collections[i]).find().forEach(printjson); //and then print the json of each of its elements
}

I think this script might get what you want. It prints the name of each collection and then prints its elements in json.

10
votes

Before writing below queries first get into your cmd or PowerShell

TYPE:
mongo             //To get into MongoDB shell
use <Your_dbName>      //For Creating or making use of existing db

To List All Collection Names use any one from below options :-

show collections  //output every collection
  OR
show tables
  OR
db.getCollectionNames() //shows all collections as a list

To show all collections content or data use below listed code which had been posted by Bruno_Ferreira.

var collections = db.getCollectionNames();
for(var i = 0; i< collections.length; i++) {    
   print('Collection: ' + collections[i]); // print the name of each collection
   db.getCollection(collections[i]).find().forEach(printjson); //and then print     the json of each of its elements
}
7
votes

This way:

db.collection_name.find().toArray().then(...function...)
6
votes

This will do:

db.getCollectionNames().forEach(c => {
    db[c].find().forEach(d => {
        print(c); 
        printjson(d)
    })
})
6
votes

I prefer another approach if you are using mongo shell:

First as the another answers: use my_database_name then:

db.getCollectionNames().map( (name) => ({[name]: db[name].find().toArray().length}) )

This query will show you something like this:

[
        {
                "agreements" : 60
        },
        {
                "libraries" : 45
        },
        {
                "templates" : 9
        },
        {
                "users" : 19
        }
]

You can use similar approach with db.getCollectionInfos() it is pretty useful if you have so much data & helpful as well.