About collections with the Data API

Collections store documents in databases. Collections are best for cases where your data isn’t fully structured, or where you don’t want to use a fixed schema. If your data is fully structured and you want to use a fixed schema, use tables instead.

Commands

You can use the Data API to create, read, write, and drop collections in databases.

Collection commands:

Create a collection
Get a collection
List collection metadata
List collection names
Drop a collection

Document commands:

Insert a document
Insert documents
Find a document
Find documents
Find and update a document
Find and replace a document
Find and delete a document
Find distinct values
Update a document
Update documents
Replace a document
Count documents
Estimate document count
Delete a document
Delete documents

About collections with the Data API

Commands

See also

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