MongoDB lists - get every Nth item

Question

I have a Mongodb schema that looks roughly like:

[
  {
    \"name\" : \"name1\",
    \"instances\" : [ 
      {
        \"value\" : 1,
        \"date\" : ISODate         


        

Answer 1

No $unwind is needed here. You can use $push with $arrayElemAt to project the array value at requested index inside $group aggregation.

Something like

db.colname.aggregate(
[
  {"$group":{
    "_id":null,
    "valuesatNthindex":{"$push":{"$arrayElemAt":["$instances",N]}
    }}
  },
  {"$project":{"valuesatNthindex":1}}
])