How to delete lots of mongodb collections at once?

Question

There are a lot of mongodb collections in my database that I need to delete. They all have similar names, and it would be easy to delete them if only wildcard characters cou

Answer 1

No, there's not a way to drop several collections by a wildcard/regex. You have to drop them one by one. I recently performed a similar task and my script was able to drop ~20-30 collections per second. How many do you have?