Preface
This book is about the MongoDB aggregation framework. It provides a set of practical, easy-to-digest principles and approaches for increasing your effectiveness in developing aggregation pipelines, supported by examples for building pipelines to solve various data manipulation and analysis tasks.
The aggregation framework is a runtime component of MongoDB with an API for client applications. By using the aggregation framework, developers can invoke queries to perform sophisticated transformations, analytics, and computations on the data held directly within the database. MongoDB aggregations help with tasks such as filtering, grouping, sorting, and calculating aggregated values from large datasets without needing to extract and process ...
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