The collection is a container for MongoDB documents. It is equivalent to SQL tables, which store the data in rows. The collection should only store related documents. For example, the user_profiles collection should only store data related to user profiles. It should not contain a user's friend list as this should not be a part of a user's profile; instead, this should fall under the users_friend collection.
To create a new collection, you can use the following command:
Here, db represents the database in which we are storing a collection and users_profile is the new collection we are creating.
Documents in a collection ...
