MongoDB - Aggregate Sum

Question

I am attempting to calculate the total amount of money spent being tracked inside of our database. Each order document contains a field \"total_price\"

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Answer 1

$sum only works with ints, longs and floats. Right now, there is no operator to parse a string into a number, although that would be very useful. You can do this yourself as is described in Mongo convert all numeric fields that are stored as string but that would be slow.

I would suggest you make sure that your application stores numbers as int/long/float, and that you write a script that iterators over all your documents and updates the value. I would also suggest that you add a feature request at https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER to add an operator that converts a string to a number.