Mongodb: Select the top N rows from each group [duplicate]

Answer 1

This answer using map reduce by drcosta from another question did the trick

In mongo, how do I use map reduce to get a group by ordered by most recent

mapper = function () {
  emit(this.category, {top:[this.score]});
}

reducer = function (key, values) {
  var scores = [];
  values.forEach(
    function (obj) {
      obj.top.forEach(
        function (score) {
          scores[scores.length] = score;
      });
  });
  scores.sort();
  scores.reverse();
  return {top:scores.slice(0, 3)};
}

function find_top_scores(categories) {
  var query = [];
  db.top_foos.find({_id:{$in:categories}}).forEach(
    function (topscores) {
      query[query.length] = {
        category:topscores._id,
        score:{$in:topscores.value.top}
      };
  });
  return db.foo.find({$or:query});