To find a specific amount of records, use LIMIT() in MongoDB. The method accepts one number type argument, which is the number of documents that you want to be displayed.
Let us create a collection with documents −
> db.demo549.insertOne({"Name":"Chris"});{ "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e8e32889e5f92834d7f05df") } > db.demo549.insertOne({"Name":"David"});{ "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e8e328c9e5f92834d7f05e0") } > db.demo549.insertOne({"Name":"Bob"});{ "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e8e328f9e5f92834d7f05e1") } > db.demo549.insertOne({"Name":"John"});{ "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e8e32929e5f92834d7f05e2") }
Display all documents from a collection with the help of find() method −
> db.demo549.find();
This will produce the following output −
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5e8e32889e5f92834d7f05df"), "Name" : "Chris" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e8e328c9e5f92834d7f05e0"), "Name" : "David" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e8e328f9e5f92834d7f05e1"), "Name" : "Bob" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e8e32929e5f92834d7f05e2"), "Name" : "John" }
Following is the query to find a specified amount of records in MongoDB −
> db.demo549.find().limit(2);
This will produce the following output −
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5e8e32889e5f92834d7f05df"), "Name" : "Chris" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e8e328c9e5f92834d7f05e0"), "Name" : "David" }