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MongoDB Duplicate Documents even after adding unique key
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How would I find duplicate fields in a mongo collection.
I'd like to check if any of the "name" fields are duplicates.
{
"name" : "ksqn291",
"__v" : 0,
"_id" : ObjectId("540f346c3e7fc1054ffa7086"),
"channel" : "Sales"
}
Many thanks!
Use aggregation on name
and get name
with count > 1
:
db.collection.aggregate(
{"$group" : { "_id": "$name", "count": { "$sum": 1 } } },
{"$match": {"_id" :{ "$ne" : null } , "count" : {"$gt": 1} } },
{"$project": {"name" : "$_id", "_id" : 0} }
)
To sort the results by most to least duplicates:
db.collection.aggregate(
{"$group" : { "_id": "$name", "count": { "$sum": 1 } } },
{"$match": {"_id" :{ "$ne" : null } , "count" : {"$gt": 1} } },
{"$sort": {"count" : -1} },
{"$project": {"name" : "$_id", "_id" : 0} }
)
To use with another column name than "name", change "$name" to "$column_name"
You can find the list
of duplicate
names using the following aggregate
pipeline:
Group
all the records having similar name
.
Match
those groups
having records greater than 1
.
- Then
group
again to project
all the duplicate names as an array
.
The Code:
db.collection.aggregate([
{$group:{"_id":"$name","name":{$first:"$name"},"count":{$sum:1}}},
{$match:{"count":{$gt:1}}},
{$project:{"name":1,"_id":0}},
{$group:{"_id":null,"duplicateNames":{$push:"$name"}}},
{$project:{"_id":0,"duplicateNames":1}}
])
o/p:
{ "duplicateNames" : [ "ksqn291", "ksqn29123213Test" ] }
The answer anhic gave can be very inefficient if you have a large database and the attribute name is present only in some of the documents.
To improve efficiency you can add a $match to the aggregation.
db.collection.aggregate(
{"$match": {"name" :{ "$ne" : null } } },
{"$group" : {"_id": "$name", "count": { "$sum": 1 } } },
{"$match": {"count" : {"$gt": 1} } },
{"$project": {"name" : "$_id", "_id" : 0} }
)
db.collectionName.aggregate([
{ $group:{
_id:{Name:"$name"},
uniqueId:{$addToSet:"$_id"},
count:{"$sum":1}
}
},
{ $match:{
duplicate:{"$gt":1}
}
}
]);
First Group Query the group according to the fields.
Then we check the unique Id and count it, If count is greater then 1 then the field is duplicate in the entire collection so that thing is to be handle by $match query.