Finding highest value from sub-arrays in documents

Question

Let say I have the following collection:

{ _id: 1, Array: [
  { K: \"A\", V: 8 },
  { K: \"B\", V: 5 },
  { K: \"C\", V: 13 } ] }

{ _id: 2, Array: [
  { K:          


        

Answer 1

The following aggratation set returns what you need.

db.letters.aggregate([
    {$project:{"Array.K":1, "Array.V":1}},
    {$unwind:"$Array"},
    {$sort:{"Array.V":-1}},
    {$limit:1}
]);

Returns:

{"_id":2, "Array":{"K":"E","V":14}}

Enjoy! :)

Answer 2

IN Simple Words , if you have mongo query Response something like below - and you want only highest value from Array-> "Wish_CreatedDate"

{
  "_id": "57ee5a708e117c754915a2a2",
  "TotalWishs": 3,
  "Events": [
    "57f805c866bf62f12edb8024"
  ],
  "wish": [
    "Cosmic Eldorado  Mountain Bikes, 26-inch (Grey/White)",
    "Asics Men's Gel-Nimbus 18 Black, Snow and Fiery Red Running Shoes - 10 UK/India (45 EU) (11 US)",
    "Suunto Digital Black Dial Unisex Watch - SS018734000"
  ],
  "Wish_CreatedDate": [
    "2017-03-05T00:00:00.000Z",
    "2017-02-13T00:00:00.000Z"
  ],
  "UserDetails": [
    {
      "createdAt": "2016-09-30T12:28:32.773Z",
      "jeenesFriends": [
        "57edf8a96ad8f6ff453a384a",
        "57ee516c8e117c754915a26b",
        "58a1644b6c91d2af783770b0",
        "57ef4631b97d81824cf54795"
      ],
      "userImage": "user_profile/Male.png",
      "email": "roopak@small-screen.com",
      "fullName": "Roopak Kapoor"
    }
  ],

},

***Then you have add

Latest_Wish_CreatedDate: { $max: "$Wish_CreatedDate"},

somthing like below-

{ 
                $project : { _id: 1,
                             TotalWishs : 1 ,
                              wish:1 ,
                               Events:1, 
                               Wish_CreatedDate:1,
                               Latest_Wish_CreatedDate: { $max: "$Wish_CreatedDate"},
                            } 
            } 

And Final Query Response will be below

{
  "_id": "57ee5a708e117c754915a2a2",
  "TotalWishs": 3,
  "Events": [
    "57f805c866bf62f12edb8024"
  ],
  "wish": [
    "Cosmic Eldorado  Mountain Bikes, 26-inch (Grey/White)",
    "Asics Men's Gel-Nimbus 18 Black, Snow and Fiery Red Running Shoes - 10 UK/India (45 EU) (11 US)",
    "Suunto Digital Black Dial Unisex Watch - SS018734000"
  ],
  "Wish_CreatedDate": [
    "2017-03-05T00:00:00.000Z",
    "2017-02-13T00:00:00.000Z"
  ],
  "UserDetails": [
    {
      "createdAt": "2016-09-30T12:28:32.773Z",
      "jeenesFriends": [
        "57edf8a96ad8f6ff453a384a",
        "57ee516c8e117c754915a26b",
        "58a1644b6c91d2af783770b0",
        "57ef4631b97d81824cf54795"
      ],
      "userImage": "user_profile/Male.png",
      "email": "roopak@small-screen.com",
      "fullName": "Roopak Kapoor"
    }
  ],
  "Latest_Wish_CreatedDate": "2017-03-05T00:00:00.000Z"
},

Answer 3

As @JohnnyHK said:

db.col.aggregate([
    {$unwind: '$Array'},
    {$group: {_id: '$_id', Array: {K: {$max: '$K'}, V: {$max: '$V'}}}}
])

Something like that.