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Aggregation

In Chapter 6Multi-Document ACID Transactions, we worked through two use cases of new transactional capabilities using the code for Ruby and Python. In this chapter, we will dive deeper into the aggregation framework, learning how it can be useful. Additionally, we will look at the aggregation operators that are supported by MongoDB.

Following that, we will learn about the time series collections, which were introduced in version 5 and greatly expanded in version 6. Next, we will learn about MongoDB views, which are similar to traditional database materialized views.

Finally, we will discuss the most major aggregation pipeline limitations and bring everything together with a sample aggregation use case.

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