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Example: $sample $sample

The $sample stage in a MongoDB pipeline will use either a pseudo-random cursor or collection scan and random sort to select N random documents from a collection, depending on whether the collection size and N are below certain thresholds and if $sample is the first stage. $sample may output the same document more than once.

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Example: $sample $sample

The $sample stage in a MongoDB pipeline will use either a pseudo-random cursor or collection scan and random sort to select N random documents from a collection, depending on whether the collection size and N are below certain thresholds and if $sample is the first stage. $sample may output the same document more than once.

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$sample uses one of two methods to obtain N random documents, depending on

the size of the collection, the size of N, and $sample’s position in the pipeline.

If all the following conditions are met, $sample uses a pseudo-random cursor to


select documents:

 $sample is the first stage of the pipeline


 N is less than 5% of the total documents in the collection
 The collection contains more than 100 documents

If any of the above conditions are NOT met, $sample performs a collection scan


followed by a random sort to select N documents. In this case, the $sample stage is
subject to the sort memory restrictions.

WARNING
$sample may output the same document more than once in its result set. For more
information, see Cursor Isolation.

Example
Given a collection named users with the following documents:

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{ "_id" : 1, "name" : "dave123", "q1" : true, "q2" : true }
{ "_id" : 2, "name" : "dave2", "q1" : false, "q2" : false }
{ "_id" : 3, "name" : "ahn", "q1" : true, "q2" : true }
{ "_id" : 4, "name" : "li", "q1" : true, "q2" : false }
{ "_id" : 5, "name" : "annT", "q1" : false, "q2" : true }
{ "_id" : 6, "name" : "li", "q1" : true, "q2" : true }
{ "_id" : 7, "name" : "ty", "q1" : false, "q2" : true }

The following aggregation operation randomly selects 3 documents from the


collection:

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db.users.aggregate(
[ { $sample: { size: 3 } } ]
)

The operation returns three random documents.

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