How can I (in MongoDB) combine data from multiple collections into one collection?
Can I use map-reduce and if so then how?
I would greatly appreciate some
Starting Mongo 4.4
, we can achieve this join within an aggregation pipeline by coupling the new $unionWith aggregation stage with $group
's new $accumulator operator:
// > db.users.find()
// [{ user: 1, name: "x" }, { user: 2, name: "y" }]
// > db.books.find()
// [{ user: 1, book: "a" }, { user: 1, book: "b" }, { user: 2, book: "c" }]
// > db.movies.find()
// [{ user: 1, movie: "g" }, { user: 2, movie: "h" }, { user: 2, movie: "i" }]
db.users.aggregate([
{ $unionWith: "books" },
{ $unionWith: "movies" },
{ $group: {
_id: "$user",
user: {
$accumulator: {
accumulateArgs: ["$name", "$book", "$movie"],
init: function() { return { books: [], movies: [] } },
accumulate: function(user, name, book, movie) {
if (name) user.name = name;
if (book) user.books.push(book);
if (movie) user.movies.push(movie);
return user;
},
merge: function(userV1, userV2) {
if (userV2.name) userV1.name = userV2.name;
userV1.books.concat(userV2.books);
userV1.movies.concat(userV2.movies);
return userV1;
},
lang: "js"
}
}
}}
])
// { _id: 1, user: { books: ["a", "b"], movies: ["g"], name: "x" } }
// { _id: 2, user: { books: ["c"], movies: ["h", "i"], name: "y" } }
$unionWith combines records from the given collection within documents already in the aggregation pipeline. After the 2 union stages, we thus have all users, books and movies records within the pipeline.
We then $group
records by $user
and accumulate items using the $accumulator operator allowing custom accumulations of documents as they get grouped:
accumulateArgs
.init
defines the state that will be accumulated as we group elements.accumulate
function allows performing a custom action with a record being grouped in order to build the accumulated state. For instance, if the item being grouped has the book
field defined, then we update the books
part of the state.merge
is used to merge two internal states. It's only used for aggregations running on sharded clusters or when the operation exceeds memory limits.Mongorestore has this feature of appending on top of whatever is already in the database, so this behavior could be used for combining two collections:
Didn't try it yet, but it might perform faster than the map/reduce approach.
You've to do that in your application layer. If you're using an ORM, it could use annotations (or something similar) to pull references that exist in other collections. I only have worked with Morphia, and the @Reference annotation fetches the referenced entity when queried, so I am able to avoid doing it myself in the code.
MongoDB 3.2 now allows one to combine data from multiple collections into one through the $lookup aggregation stage. As a practical example, lets say that you have data about books split into two different collections.
First collection, called books
, having the following data:
{
"isbn": "978-3-16-148410-0",
"title": "Some cool book",
"author": "John Doe"
}
{
"isbn": "978-3-16-148999-9",
"title": "Another awesome book",
"author": "Jane Roe"
}
And the second collection, called books_selling_data
, having the following data:
{
"_id": ObjectId("56e31bcf76cdf52e541d9d26"),
"isbn": "978-3-16-148410-0",
"copies_sold": 12500
}
{
"_id": ObjectId("56e31ce076cdf52e541d9d28"),
"isbn": "978-3-16-148999-9",
"copies_sold": 720050
}
{
"_id": ObjectId("56e31ce076cdf52e541d9d29"),
"isbn": "978-3-16-148999-9",
"copies_sold": 1000
}
To merge both collections is just a matter of using $lookup in the following way:
db.books.aggregate([{
$lookup: {
from: "books_selling_data",
localField: "isbn",
foreignField: "isbn",
as: "copies_sold"
}
}])
After this aggregation, the books
collection will look like the following:
{
"isbn": "978-3-16-148410-0",
"title": "Some cool book",
"author": "John Doe",
"copies_sold": [
{
"_id": ObjectId("56e31bcf76cdf52e541d9d26"),
"isbn": "978-3-16-148410-0",
"copies_sold": 12500
}
]
}
{
"isbn": "978-3-16-148999-9",
"title": "Another awesome book",
"author": "Jane Roe",
"copies_sold": [
{
"_id": ObjectId("56e31ce076cdf52e541d9d28"),
"isbn": "978-3-16-148999-9",
"copies_sold": 720050
},
{
"_id": ObjectId("56e31ce076cdf52e541d9d28"),
"isbn": "978-3-16-148999-9",
"copies_sold": 1000
}
]
}
It is important to note a few things:
books_selling_data
, cannot be sharded.So, as a conclusion, if you want to consolidate both collections, having, in this case, a flat copies_sold field with the total copies sold, you will have to work a little bit more, probably using an intermediary collection that will, then, be $out to the final collection.
use multiple $lookup for multiple collections in aggregation
query:
db.getCollection('servicelocations').aggregate([
{
$match: {
serviceLocationId: {
$in: ["36728"]
}
}
},
{
$lookup: {
from: "orders",
localField: "serviceLocationId",
foreignField: "serviceLocationId",
as: "orders"
}
},
{
$lookup: {
from: "timewindowtypes",
localField: "timeWindow.timeWindowTypeId",
foreignField: "timeWindowTypeId",
as: "timeWindow"
}
},
{
$lookup: {
from: "servicetimetypes",
localField: "serviceTimeTypeId",
foreignField: "serviceTimeTypeId",
as: "serviceTime"
}
},
{
$unwind: "$orders"
},
{
$unwind: "$serviceTime"
},
{
$limit: 14
}
])
result:
{
"_id" : ObjectId("59c3ac4bb7799c90ebb3279b"),
"serviceLocationId" : "36728",
"regionId" : 1.0,
"zoneId" : "DXBZONE1",
"description" : "AL HALLAB REST EMIRATES MALL",
"locationPriority" : 1.0,
"accountTypeId" : 1.0,
"locationType" : "SERVICELOCATION",
"location" : {
"makani" : "",
"lat" : 25.119035,
"lng" : 55.198694
},
"deliveryDays" : "MTWRFSU",
"timeWindow" : [
{
"_id" : ObjectId("59c3b0a3b7799c90ebb32cde"),
"timeWindowTypeId" : "1",
"Description" : "MORNING",
"timeWindow" : {
"openTime" : "06:00",
"closeTime" : "08:00"
},
"accountId" : 1.0
},
{
"_id" : ObjectId("59c3b0a3b7799c90ebb32cdf"),
"timeWindowTypeId" : "1",
"Description" : "MORNING",
"timeWindow" : {
"openTime" : "09:00",
"closeTime" : "10:00"
},
"accountId" : 1.0
},
{
"_id" : ObjectId("59c3b0a3b7799c90ebb32ce0"),
"timeWindowTypeId" : "1",
"Description" : "MORNING",
"timeWindow" : {
"openTime" : "10:30",
"closeTime" : "11:30"
},
"accountId" : 1.0
}
],
"address1" : "",
"address2" : "",
"phone" : "",
"city" : "",
"county" : "",
"state" : "",
"country" : "",
"zipcode" : "",
"imageUrl" : "",
"contact" : {
"name" : "",
"email" : ""
},
"status" : "ACTIVE",
"createdBy" : "",
"updatedBy" : "",
"updateDate" : "",
"accountId" : 1.0,
"serviceTimeTypeId" : "1",
"orders" : [
{
"_id" : ObjectId("59c3b291f251c77f15790f92"),
"orderId" : "AQ18O1704264",
"serviceLocationId" : "36728",
"orderNo" : "AQ18O1704264",
"orderDate" : "18-Sep-17",
"description" : "AQ18O1704264",
"serviceType" : "Delivery",
"orderSource" : "Import",
"takenBy" : "KARIM",
"plannedDeliveryDate" : ISODate("2017-08-26T00:00:00.000Z"),
"plannedDeliveryTime" : "",
"actualDeliveryDate" : "",
"actualDeliveryTime" : "",
"deliveredBy" : "",
"size1" : 296.0,
"size2" : 3573.355,
"size3" : 240.811,
"jobPriority" : 1.0,
"cancelReason" : "",
"cancelDate" : "",
"cancelBy" : "",
"reasonCode" : "",
"reasonText" : "",
"status" : "",
"lineItems" : [
{
"ItemId" : "BNWB020",
"size1" : 15.0,
"size2" : 78.6,
"size3" : 6.0
},
{
"ItemId" : "BNWB021",
"size1" : 20.0,
"size2" : 252.0,
"size3" : 11.538
},
{
"ItemId" : "BNWB023",
"size1" : 15.0,
"size2" : 285.0,
"size3" : 16.071
},
{
"ItemId" : "CPMW112",
"size1" : 3.0,
"size2" : 25.38,
"size3" : 1.731
},
{
"ItemId" : "MMGW001",
"size1" : 25.0,
"size2" : 464.375,
"size3" : 46.875
},
{
"ItemId" : "MMNB218",
"size1" : 50.0,
"size2" : 920.0,
"size3" : 60.0
},
{
"ItemId" : "MMNB219",
"size1" : 50.0,
"size2" : 630.0,
"size3" : 40.0
},
{
"ItemId" : "MMNB220",
"size1" : 50.0,
"size2" : 416.0,
"size3" : 28.846
},
{
"ItemId" : "MMNB270",
"size1" : 50.0,
"size2" : 262.0,
"size3" : 20.0
},
{
"ItemId" : "MMNB302",
"size1" : 15.0,
"size2" : 195.0,
"size3" : 6.0
},
{
"ItemId" : "MMNB373",
"size1" : 3.0,
"size2" : 45.0,
"size3" : 3.75
}
],
"accountId" : 1.0
},
{
"_id" : ObjectId("59c3b291f251c77f15790f9d"),
"orderId" : "AQ137O1701240",
"serviceLocationId" : "36728",
"orderNo" : "AQ137O1701240",
"orderDate" : "18-Sep-17",
"description" : "AQ137O1701240",
"serviceType" : "Delivery",
"orderSource" : "Import",
"takenBy" : "KARIM",
"plannedDeliveryDate" : ISODate("2017-08-26T00:00:00.000Z"),
"plannedDeliveryTime" : "",
"actualDeliveryDate" : "",
"actualDeliveryTime" : "",
"deliveredBy" : "",
"size1" : 28.0,
"size2" : 520.11,
"size3" : 52.5,
"jobPriority" : 1.0,
"cancelReason" : "",
"cancelDate" : "",
"cancelBy" : "",
"reasonCode" : "",
"reasonText" : "",
"status" : "",
"lineItems" : [
{
"ItemId" : "MMGW001",
"size1" : 25.0,
"size2" : 464.38,
"size3" : 46.875
},
{
"ItemId" : "MMGW001-F1",
"size1" : 3.0,
"size2" : 55.73,
"size3" : 5.625
}
],
"accountId" : 1.0
},
{
"_id" : ObjectId("59c3b291f251c77f15790fd8"),
"orderId" : "AQ110O1705036",
"serviceLocationId" : "36728",
"orderNo" : "AQ110O1705036",
"orderDate" : "18-Sep-17",
"description" : "AQ110O1705036",
"serviceType" : "Delivery",
"orderSource" : "Import",
"takenBy" : "KARIM",
"plannedDeliveryDate" : ISODate("2017-08-26T00:00:00.000Z"),
"plannedDeliveryTime" : "",
"actualDeliveryDate" : "",
"actualDeliveryTime" : "",
"deliveredBy" : "",
"size1" : 60.0,
"size2" : 1046.0,
"size3" : 68.0,
"jobPriority" : 1.0,
"cancelReason" : "",
"cancelDate" : "",
"cancelBy" : "",
"reasonCode" : "",
"reasonText" : "",
"status" : "",
"lineItems" : [
{
"ItemId" : "MMNB218",
"size1" : 50.0,
"size2" : 920.0,
"size3" : 60.0
},
{
"ItemId" : "MMNB219",
"size1" : 10.0,
"size2" : 126.0,
"size3" : 8.0
}
],
"accountId" : 1.0
}
],
"serviceTime" : {
"_id" : ObjectId("59c3b07cb7799c90ebb32cdc"),
"serviceTimeTypeId" : "1",
"serviceTimeType" : "nohelper",
"description" : "",
"fixedTime" : 30.0,
"variableTime" : 0.0,
"accountId" : 1.0
}
}