MongoDB Aggregation: Counting distinct fields

Question

I am trying to write an aggregation to identify accounts that use multiple payment sources. Typical data would be.

{
 account:\"abc\",
 vendor:\"amazon\",
}         


        

Answer 1

This approach doesn't make use of $unwind and other extra operations. Plus, this won't affect anything if new things are added into the aggregation. There's a flaw in the accepted answer. If you have other accumulated fields in the $group, it would cause issues in the $unwind stage of the accepted answer.

db.collection.aggregate([{
    "$group": {
        "_id": "$account",
        "vendors": {"$addToSet": "$vendor"}
    }
},
{
    "$addFields": {
        "vendorCount": {
            "$size": "$vendors"
        }
    }
}])