To sort in MongoDB, use sort(). For displaying only a specific number of values, use LIMIT. Let us create a collection with documents −
> db.demo254.insertOne({"Name":"Chris"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e47a0ab1627c0c63e7dba7f") } > db.demo254.insertOne({"Name":"Adam"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e47a0b01627c0c63e7dba80") } > db.demo254.insertOne({"Name":"Bob"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e47a0b71627c0c63e7dba81") }
Display all documents from a collection with the help of find() method −
> db.demo254.find();
This will produce the following output −
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5e47a0ab1627c0c63e7dba7f"), "Name" : "Chris" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e47a0b01627c0c63e7dba80"), "Name" : "Adam" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e47a0b71627c0c63e7dba81"), "Name" : "Bob" }
Following is the query to sort −
> db.demo254.find().sort({"Name":1});
This will produce the following output −
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5e47a0b01627c0c63e7dba80"), "Name" : "Adam" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e47a0b71627c0c63e7dba81"), "Name" : "Bob" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e47a0ab1627c0c63e7dba7f"), "Name" : "Chris" }
Following is the query to sort and display only a specific number of records with limit().
> db.demo254.find().sort({"Name":1}).limit(2);
This will produce the following output −
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5e47a0b01627c0c63e7dba80"), "Name" : "Adam" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e47a0b71627c0c63e7dba81"), "Name" : "Bob" }