{"id":36486,"date":"2016-04-25T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/examples.javacodegeeks.com\/?p=36486"},"modified":"2016-04-24T11:24:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T08:24:02","slug":"mongodb-show-databases-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/examples.javacodegeeks.com\/software-development\/mongodb\/mongodb-show-databases-example\/","title":{"rendered":"MongoDB Show Databases Example"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Introduction<\/h2>\n

MongoDB is a popular document-oriented NoSQL database developed by MongoDB Inc.<\/p>\n

In this post, we are going to see different ways to list all the available databases. To give a foreword, a database in MongoDB is technically made up of different Collections.<\/p>\n

Before we getting into how to list databases, let’s first see how to create a database in MongoDB.<\/p>\n

We do not have any specific command to create a database in MongoDB. To switch database,\u00a0use the below command from mongo shell:\u00a0use jcgdb<\/code>
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\nBy executing the above command, MongoDB switches to use the database ‘jcgdb’. Suppose that this database has not been created prior to execution of the above command. Even after executing this command, the database will not be created because MongoDB lazily creates a database when the first collection of the database being created.<\/p>\n

For more information on creating a database, please check this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s see different ways to list the databases in a running Mongo instance.<\/p>\n