What are naming conventions for MongoDB?

Question

Is there a set of preferred naming conventions for MongoDB entitites such as databases, collections, field names?

I was thinking along these lines:

• Dat

Answer 1

Even if no convention is specified about this, manual references are consistently named after the referenced collection in the Mongo documentation, for one-to-one relations. The name always follows the structure _id.

For example, in a dogs collection, a document would have manual references to external documents named like this:

{
  name: 'fido',
  owner_id: '5358e4249611f4a65e3068ab',
  race_id: '5358ee549611f4a65e3068ac',
  colour: 'yellow'
  ...
}

This follows the Mongo convention of naming _id the identifier for every document.