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hotips

Reputation: 2631

MongoDB : aggregation framework : $match between fields

I have a test collection with two documents : 

> db.test.find().pretty()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("510114b46c1a3a0f6e5dd7aa"), "a" : 1, "b" : 2 }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("510114c86c1a3a0f6e5dd7ab"), "a" : 3, "b" : 1 }

With aggregation framework, I want to get only the documents where a is greater than b. $gt get only values in argument not fields...

> db.test.aggregate([{"$match":{"$a":{"$gt":"$b"}}}])
{ "result" : [ ], "ok" : 1 } /* don't work*/

Do you have some ideas ?

Thanks in advance

Best regards

Upvotes: 24

Views: 25838

Answers (2)

Govind Rai
Govind Rai

Reputation: 15780

Use the $expr operator.

Introduced in version 3.6, $expr can build query expressions that compare fields from the same document.

Compare Two Fields from A Single Document (example taken directly from MongoDB Docs):

Consider an monthlyBudget collection with the following documents:

{ "_id" : 1, "category" : "food", "budget": 400, "spent": 450 }
{ "_id" : 2, "category" : "drinks", "budget": 100, "spent": 150 }
{ "_id" : 3, "category" : "clothes", "budget": 100, "spent": 50 }
{ "_id" : 4, "category" : "misc", "budget": 500, "spent": 300 }
{ "_id" : 5, "category" : "travel", "budget": 200, "spent": 650 }

The following operation uses $expr to find documents where the spent amount exceeds the budget:

db.monthlyBudget.find( { $expr: { $gt: [ "$spent" , "$budget" ] } } )

The operation returns the following results:

{ "_id" : 1, "category" : "food", "budget" : 400, "spent" : 450 }
{ "_id" : 2, "category" : "drinks", "budget" : 100, "spent" : 150 }
{ "_id" : 5, "category" : "travel", "budget" : 200, "spent" : 650 }

Upvotes: 13

Sammaye
Sammaye

Reputation: 43884

Hmm without much testing on my end I will say you can use $cmp for this:

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/aggregation/cmp/#_S_cmp

db.test.aggregate([
    {$project: {
        // All your other fields here
        cmp_value: {$cmp: ['$a', '$b']}
    }},
    {$match: {cmp_value: {$gt: 0}}} 
])

There might be a better way but I haven't got a MongoDB installation near me to test.

Upvotes: 44

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