We need to create a MongoDB collection in which to store the documents. Start the Mongo shell with the mongo command
>mongo
Create a collection called catalog with the following commands in Mongo shell. The first command sets the database to local. The second command drops the catalog collection.
>use local
>db.catalog.drop()
>db.createCollection(“catalog”)
The catalog collection gets created as shown in Figure 9-1.
Source: Vohra Deepak (2015), Pro MongoDB™ Development, Apress; 1st ed. edition.