To sort documents, use sort() along with find(). Let us create a collection with documents −
> db.demo630.insertOne({"Value":10}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e9b080e6c954c74be91e6ba") } > db.demo630.insertOne({"Value":200}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e9b08116c954c74be91e6bb") } > db.demo630.insertOne({"Value":40}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e9b08146c954c74be91e6bc") } > db.demo630.insertOne({"Value":60}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e9b08176c954c74be91e6bd") }
Display all documents from a collection with the help of find() method −
> db.demo630.find();
This will produce the following output −
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5e9b080e6c954c74be91e6ba"), "Value" : 10 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e9b08116c954c74be91e6bb"), "Value" : 200 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e9b08146c954c74be91e6bc"), "Value" : 40 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e9b08176c954c74be91e6bd"), "Value" : 60 }
Following is the query to sort −
> db.demo630.find().sort({Value:-1});
This will produce the following output −
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5e9b08116c954c74be91e6bb"), "Value" : 200 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e9b08176c954c74be91e6bd"), "Value" : 60 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e9b08146c954c74be91e6bc"), "Value" : 40 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e9b080e6c954c74be91e6ba"), "Value" : 10 }