How to sort document in MongoDB

How to sort document in MongoDB

The sort() Method

We need to use sort() method to sort documents in MongoDB , it accepts a document field along with their sorting order. To specify sorting order 1 and -1 are used. 1 is used for ascending order while -1 is used for descending order.

Syntax:

Basic syntax of sort() method is given below

db.COLLECTION_NAME.find().sort({KEY:1})

Example: Point out the collection test Col has the following data

{ "_id" : ObjectId(5983548781331adf45ec5), "title":"MongoDB Overview", "by":"codefari.com"}
{ "_id" : ObjectId(5983548781331adf45ec6), "title":" ASP.Net Over view ", "by":"codefari.com"}
{ "_id" : ObjectId(5983548781331adf45ec7), "title":" SQL Server 2014", "by":"codefari.com"}

Following example will display the documents sorted by title in descending order.

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>db.testCol.find({},{"title":1,_id:0}).sort({"title":-1})
{"title":" SQL Server 2014"}
{"title":" MongoDB Overview "}
{"title":" SQL Server 2014"}
>

Note: if you don't specify the sorting preference, then sort() method will display documents in ascending order.