insert()

The method insert() is used to insert record into insert records into sequoiaDB collection.The grammar of it is:

db.collectionspace.collection.insert(<doc|docs>,[flag])

Insert the first document

If there is no collection space and collection. Firstly, create collection (For example, "db.createCS("foo")" create collection space "foo") and collection (For example, "db.foo.createCL("bar")" create collection under collection space "bar"), then you are able to insert records.

db.foo.bar.insert(
  {
     _id:1,
     name:{fist:"Jhon",last:"Black"},
     phone:[1853742XXX,1802321XXX],
     remark:[
              {
                 position:"manager",
                 year:2000
                },
               {
                 position:"CEO",
                 year:2012
                }
             ]
  }
)

Users can check out whether the insert is successful through the method "find()"

db.foo.bar.find()

The result is as follow:

 {
    _id:1,
    name:{fist:"Jhon",last:"Black"},
    phone:[1853742XXX,1802321XXX],
    remark:[
       {
          position:"manager",
          year:2000
         },
        {
          position:"CEO",
          year:2012
         }
      ]
 } 

unspecified _id field

If a new document record doesn't conain "_id" field, the method insert() will add "_id" field into a document and generate an unique "$oid" value.

db.foo.bar.insert({name:"Tom",age:20})

This command insert a newe record into collection "bar". In the record, the value of "name" is "Tom". The value of "age" is 20. The "_id" field is unique:

{ "_id": { "$oid": "515152ba49af395200000000" }, "name": "Tom", "age": 20 }

Insert more than one record

If users insert an array document in the method "insert", the method "insert()" will execute batch inserts in a collection.

The following command inserts 2 records into collection "bar". This manipulation demonstrates the feature of dynamic mode in sequoiaDB. Although the record with "_id:20" contains field name "phone", but the other one doesn't contain that, sequoiaDB doesn't require all records to contains this field.

db.foo.bar.insert([{name:”Mike”,age:15},{_id:20,name:”John”,age:25,phone:123}])