Node.js, MongoDB, and AngularJS Web Development

Adding Indexes

MongoDB allows you to index fields in your collections so that you can more quickly find documents. When you add an index in MongoDB, a special data structure is created in the background that stores a small portion of a collection’s data and then optimizes the structure of that data to make it faster to find specific documents.

For example, applying an _id index basically creates a sorted array of _id values. Once the index has been created, you get these benefits:

When looking up an object by _id, you can perform an optimized search on the ordered index to find the object in question.

Say that you want objects back sorted by ...