Search on multiple collections in MongoDB

Question

I know the theory of MongoDB and the fact that is doesn\'t support joins, and that I should use embeded documents or denormalize as much as possible, but here goes:

Answer 1

You can achieve this using $mergeObjects by MongoDB Driver Example Create a collection orders with the following documents:

db.orders.insert([
  { "_id" : 1, "item" : "abc", "price" : 12, "ordered" : 2 },
  { "_id" : 2, "item" : "jkl", "price" : 20, "ordered" : 1 }
])

Create another collection items with the following documents:

db.items.insert([
  { "_id" : 1, "item" : "abc", description: "product 1", "instock" : 120 },
  { "_id" : 2, "item" : "def", description: "product 2", "instock" : 80 },
  { "_id" : 3, "item" : "jkl", description: "product 3", "instock" : 60 }
])

The following operation first uses the $lookup stage to join the two collections by the item fields and then uses $mergeObjects in the $replaceRoot to merge the joined documents from items and orders:

db.orders.aggregate([
   {
      $lookup: {
         from: "items",
         localField: "item",    // field in the orders collection
         foreignField: "item",  // field in the items collection
         as: "fromItems"
      }
   },
   {
      $replaceRoot: { newRoot: { $mergeObjects: [ { $arrayElemAt: [ "$fromItems", 0 ] }, "$$ROOT" ] } }
   },
   { $project: { fromItems: 0 } }
])

The operation returns the following documents:

{ "_id" : 1, "item" : "abc", "description" : "product 1", "instock" : 120, "price" : 12, "ordered" : 2 }
{ "_id" : 2, "item" : "jkl", "description" : "product 3", "instock" : 60, "price" : 20, "ordered" : 1 }

This Technique merge Object and return the result