Introduction to MongoDb with .NET part 29: aggregation in the .NET driver using strong typing and dedicated functions

May 18, 2016 1 Comment

Introduction

In the previous post we looked at how to build an aggregation pipeline in the MongoDb .NET driver using loosely typed BsonDocument objects and the AppendStage function. AppendStage can accept any type of aggregation stage and each stage is described with plain strings. An advantage with AppendStage is that we can express any kind of aggregation stage with it, including those for which there’s no suitable dedicated function, like $redact.

In this post we’ll look at the strongly typed alternative to the previous solution.

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Introduction to MongoDb with .NET part 28: aggregation in the .NET driver using loose typing and AppendStage

May 17, 2016 1 Comment

Introduction

In the previous post we started looking into MongoDb aggregations via the .NET driver. Our first example was a single $sort stage using the AppendStage function. The AppendStage function is generic in the sense that it can accept just any type of aggregation stage to be added to the pipeline. We also introduced the BsonDocument object which offers a way to describe MongoDb documents in a loosely typed way.

In this post we’ll continue our discussion and build the pipeline we’re targeting.

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Introduction to MongoDb with .NET part 27: aggregation in the .NET driver

May 12, 2016 Leave a comment

Introduction

In the previous post we looked at various other aggregation operators in MongoDb. With $first and $last we can find the highest and lowest member in a sorted collection. If you need to find e.g. the city with the highest population or the country with the lowest number of pets per capita then these operators will probably figure in the aggregation pipeline. The $unwind stage operator blows up the members of an array so that we can run a query on those members in an easier way. Without $unwind it’s difficult to access the individual members of an array. Note that $unwind can dramatically increase the result set of documents.

We’ve now gone through the most important aggregation operators in MongoDb. It’s time to turn our attention to how aggregations can be written in the .NET driver.

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Introduction to MongoDb with .NET part 26: more aggregation types and examples

May 10, 2016 Leave a comment

Introduction

In the previous post we looked at how to add multiple stages to a MongoDb aggregation pipeline. We saw that it was easy and straightforward to extend the stages array of the pipeline. It’s important to remember that each stage acts upon the set of documents produced by the previous stage. We can also have the same stage type appear more than once in the pipeline, i.e. there’s no limit saying we can only have one $group operation in a pipeline. The various stages can also appear in various order, we don’t have to follow some type of ordering either.

In this post we’ll continue where we left off and look at a couple more aggregation operators and examples.

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Introduction to MongoDb with .NET part 25: adding multiple stages to the aggregation pipeline

May 9, 2016 2 Comments

Introduction

In the previous post we continued our discussion of the grouping stage in the MongoDb aggregation pipeline. We looked at a couple of $ operators that can be used in aggregations, such as $min, $avg and $addToSet. We also saw how to use compound IDs to add multiple grouping keys. Compound IDs are also useful when we want to give an explanatory field to the compulsory _id property so that it’s clear what the grouping key is.

In this post we’ll start adding multiple stages to the pipeline. So far we’ve had simple aggregation pipelines with one stage but there’s nothing stopping us from adding more to the stage array. It’s also possible to add multiple instances of the same stage type.

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Introduction to MongoDb with .NET part 24: aggregations continued

May 6, 2016 Leave a comment

Introduction

In the previous post we looked at our first aggregation example. We grouped the zipcodes collection by state and number of inhabitants in each state. A grouping stage is represented by the $group operator and it’s followed by a number of arguments. We went through the process that MongoDb performs to produce the final set of documents. Essentially it performs a series of upsert operations on the starting collection.

In this post we’ll look at some other query examples.

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Introduction to MongoDb with .NET part 23: first aggregation examples

May 5, 2016 Leave a comment

Introduction

In the previous post we introduced the topic of aggregations in general. Aggregations in MongoDb are similar in purpose to the GROUP BY clause in SQL. They help us analyse the data stored in the database so that understand things like long term business trends, user and customer behaviour, which part of our business is making losses and similar. Aggregation queries are added to the aggregation pipeline using $ operators and the documents are passed from one stage to the next in the pipeline. We will get the aggregation result at the end of the pipeline.

In this post we’ll look at our first aggregation example.

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