How to list all collections in the MongoDB

MongoDB is my favorite database here everything goes smoothly and fast response. MongoDB has provided a lot of function support to their system. One of the is getCollectionNames() using this function we can get the list of collections.

getCollectionNames() Function use to list all collection in MongoDB. Following query, we can use in JS(Shell), Node.JS

Syntax

db. getCollectionNames()

It will return all the collection from db.

Example

db.getCollectionNames()

Output

[ "collection1", "collection2", "system.indexes" ]

Like this, if you want to see only collections for non-JS (Shell only), then use the following 

Show collections

Output

Collection1

Collection2

System.Indexes