Pivot rows to columns in MongoDB

Question

The relevant question is Efficiently convert rows to columns in sql server. But the answer is specific to SQL.

I want the same result i.e. pivot row to column withou

Answer 1

Now, you can utilise new aggregation operator $arrayToObject to pivot MongoDB keys. This operator is available in MongoDB v3.4.4+

For example, given an example data of:

db.foo.insert({ provider: "Facebook", timestamp: '1371798000000', name: 'page_storytellers', value: 20871})
db.foo.insert({ provider: "Facebook", timestamp: '1371798000000', name: 'page_fans', value: 1291509})
db.foo.insert({ provider: "Facebook", timestamp: '1371798000000', name: 'page_fan_adds', value: 2829})
db.foo.insert({ provider: "Google", timestamp: '1371798000000', name: 'page_fan_adds', value: 1000})

You can utilise Aggregation Pipeline below:

db.foo.aggregate([
  {$group:
     {_id:{provider:"$provider", timestamp:"$timestamp"}, 
      items:{$addToSet:{name:"$name",value:"$value"}}}
  }, 
  {$project:
     {tmp:{$arrayToObject: 
       {$zip:{inputs:["$items.name", "$items.value"]}}}}
  }, 
  {$addFields:
     {"tmp.provider":"$_id.provider", 
      "tmp.timestamp":"$_id.timestamp"}
  }, 
  {$replaceRoot:{newRoot:"$tmp"}
  }
]);

The output would be:

{
  "page_fan_adds": 1000,
  "provider": "Google",
  "timestamp": "1371798000000"
},
{
  "page_fan_adds": 2829,
  "page_fans": 1291509,
  "page_storytellers": 20871,
  "provider": "Facebook",
  "timestamp": "1371798000000"
}

See also $group, $project, $addFields, $zip, and $replaceRoot