Are MongoDB $facet sub-pipelines asynchronous and executed in parallel?

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I am eager to know whether MongoDB’s Aggregation Framework processes each sub-pipeline inside $facet in parallel.

It is specified in the doc that:

Each sub-pipeline within $facet is passed the exact same set of input documents. These sub-pipelines are completely independent of one another.

Does that mean each sub-pipeline in $facet is send to a separate thread and processed asynchronously?

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No, all aggregation pipelines are executed sequentially, including $facet.

If you’re prepared to add some complexity and overhead to your client code, there’s a blog post exploring using custom code to execute facet sub-pipelines in parallel and then manually merging the results: Paul Done's Technical Blog: Run MongoDB Aggregation Facets In Parallel For Faster Insight

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