Limit MongoDB Database Size/Quota

Question

I'm running the latest version on Docker(Mongodb server 7.0.11), and I'd like to know: Are there any mechanisms to limit the size of a single database on MongoDB? Or perhaps a way to impose a storage quota on a particular user?

• M. Behrens: Have you tried to use the parameters --smallfiles and --quotafiles in conjunction with -quota?
• Jerome Guenon: @M.Behrens , I saw that on an old post( link ), but that would rather affect the server instance globally, and besides, it has one other shortcoming, what if I wanted to delegate different sizes/quotas to different databases/users?
• prasad_: There are Capped Collections (in MongoDB a set of collections make a database). These allow fixed-size collections.
• Jerome Guenon: @prasad_ , seems not to work with gridfs collections. It shows the ".chunks" collection as "capped": true, and "maxSize" as I set with "convertToCapped"(to 32 megabytes), "max" : -1, however I can still keep adding stuff, and it will not put on the breaks. The "size" property stopped increasing very closed to the value I set as "maxSize", just shy of surpassing it, however, "storageSize" keeps increasing as I add more files(It's close to 50 megabytes and the bucket keeps accepting new files).
• prasad_: May be it doesn't work well with GridFS (see Is it possible to Cap a GridFS collection?). You may want to add more details about your requirement / question so that you could get more responses.