How to Find/Search Document in MongoDB

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Enabling Text Search:

Initially Text Search was an experimental feature but starting from version 2.6, the configuration is enabled by default. But if you are using previous version of MongoDB, you have to enable text search with following code:

db.collection.find(query, projection)

Selects documents in a collection and returns a cursor to the selected documents.

Find All Documents in a Collection

The find() method with no parameters returns all documents from a collection and returns all fields for the documents. For example, the following operation returns all documents in the bios collection:

db.bios.find()

Find Documents that Match Query Criteria

To find documents that match a set of selection criteria, call find() with the <criteria> parameter. The following operation returns all the documents from the collection products where qty is greater than 25:

db.products.find( { qty: { $gt: 25 } } )

Query for Equality

The following operation returns documents in the bios collection where _id equals 5:

db.bios.find( { _id: 5 } )

Query Using Operators

The following operation returns documents in the bios collection where _id equals either 5 orObjectId("507c35dd8fada716c89d0013"):

db.bios.find(
   {
      _id: { $in: [ 5,  ObjectId("507c35dd8fada716c89d0013") ] }
   }
)

Query for Ranges

Combine comparison operators to specify ranges. The following operation returns documents with field between value1 and value2:

db.collection.find( { field: { $gt: value1, $lt: value2 } } );

Query a Field that Contains an Array

If a field contains an array and your query has multiple conditional operators, the field as a whole will match if either a single array element meets the conditions or a combination of array elements meet the conditions.

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Given a collection students that contains the following documents:

{ "_id" : 1, "score" : [ -1, 3 ] }
{ "_id" : 2, "score" : [ 1, 5 ] }
{ "_id" : 3, "score" : [ 5, 5 ] }

The following query:

db.students.find( { score: { $gt: 0, $lt: 2 } } )

Matches the following documents:

{ "_id" : 1, "score" : [ -1, 3 ] }
{ "_id" : 2, "score" : [ 1, 5 ] }

In the document with _id equal to 1, the score: [ -1, 3 ] meets the conditions because the element-1 meets the $lt: 2 condition and the element 3 meets the $gt: 0 condition.

In the document with _id equal to 2, the score: [ 1, 5 ] meets the conditions because the element 1meets both the $lt: 2 condition and the $gt: 0 condition.

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