Chapter 2. Command-line Operations and Indexes

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Creating test data

• Performing simple querying, projections, and pagination from the Mongo shell

• Updating and deleting data from the shell

• Creating an index and viewing plans of queries

• Creating a background and foreground index in the shell

• Creating and understanding sparse indexes

• Expiring documents after a fixed interval using the TTL index

• Expiring documents at a given time using the TTL index