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Lab4-MongoDB Aggregation-vst

This document outlines a lab focused on MongoDB aggregation, detailing objectives such as using aggregation operators like $sort, $limit, and $group. It provides step-by-step exercises for setting up the environment, loading sample data, and performing various aggregation tasks to analyze student marks. The lab culminates in practice exercises to reinforce the concepts learned.

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Lab4-MongoDB Aggregation-vst

This document outlines a lab focused on MongoDB aggregation, detailing objectives such as using aggregation operators like $sort, $limit, and $group. It provides step-by-step exercises for setting up the environment, loading sample data, and performing various aggregation tasks to analyze student marks. The lab culminates in practice exercises to reinforce the concepts learned.

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Lab4 : MongoDB Aggregation

Objectives

After completing this lab you will be able to:

 Describe simple aggregation operators that process and compute data such as
$sort, $limit, $group, $sum, $min, $max, and $avg
 Combine operators to create multi-stage aggregation pipelines
 Build aggregation pipelines that draw insights about the data by returning
aggregated values

Exercise 1 - Getting the environment ready

1- Start the mongodb server.


2- Connect to the mongodb server.

3- Load sample data into the training database.


use training
db.marks.insert({"name":"Ramesh","subject":"maths","marks":87})
db.marks.insert({"name":"Ramesh","subject":"english","marks":59})
db.marks.insert({"name":"Ramesh","subject":"science","marks":77})
db.marks.insert({"name":"Rav","subject":"maths","marks":62})
db.marks.insert({"name":"Rav","subject":"english","marks":83})
db.marks.insert({"name":"Rav","subject":"science","marks":71})
db.marks.insert({"name":"Alison","subject":"maths","marks":84})
db.marks.insert({"name":"Alison","subject":"english","marks":82})
db.marks.insert({"name":"Alison","subject":"science","marks":86})
db.marks.insert({"name":"Steve","subject":"maths","marks":81})
db.marks.insert({"name":"Steve","subject":"english","marks":89})
db.marks.insert({"name":"Steve","subject":"science","marks":77})
db.marks.insert({"name":"Jan","subject":"english","marks":0,"reason":"a
bsent"})
Exercise 2 - Limiting the rows in the output

Using the $limit operator we can limit the number of documents printed in the
output.
This command will print only 2 documents from the marks collection.

use training
db.marks.aggregate([{"$limit":2}])

Exercise 3 - Sorting based on a column

We can use the $sort operator to sort the output.

This command sorts the documents based on field marks in ascending order.

db.marks.aggregate([{"$sort":{"marks":1}}])
This command sort the documents based on field marks in descending order.

db.marks.aggregate([{"$sort":{"marks":-1}}])

Exercise 4 - Sorting and limiting

Aggregation usually involves using more than one operator.


A pipeline consists of one or more operators declared inside an array.
The operators are comma separated.
Mongodb executes the first operator in the pipeline and sends its output to
the next operator.
Let us create a two stage pipeline that answers the question “What are the
top 2 marks?”.

db.marks.aggregate([
{"$sort":{"marks":-1}},
{"$limit":2}
])
```
Exercise 5 - Group by

The operator $group by, along with operators like $sum, $avg,
$min, $max, allows us to perform grouping operations.
This aggregation pipeline prints the average marks across all
subjects.

```

db.marks.aggregate([
{
"$group":{
"_id":"$subject",
"average":{"$avg":"$marks"}
}
}
])
The above query is equivalent to the below sql query.

SELECT subject, average(marks)


FROM marks
GROUP BY subject

Exercise 6 - Putting it all together

Now let us put together all the operators we have learnt to answer the
question. “Who are the top 2 students by average marks?”
This involves:
finding the average marks per student.
sorting the output based on average marks in descending order.
limiting the output to two documents.
db.marks.aggregate([
{
"$group":{
"_id":"$name",
"average":{"$avg":"$marks"}
}
},
{
"$sort":{"average":-1}
},
{
"$limit":2
}
])

Practice exercises

1. Find the total marks for each student across all subjects.
2. Find the maximum marks scored in each subject.
3. Find the minimum marks scored by each student.
4. Find the top two subjects based on average marks.

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