Auto deletion of older documents based on count

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We have a requirement to remove older documents based on an attribute when the count of the documents containing the said attribute goes over a threshold (which can be individually defined).

For eg:

collection_threshold: [
    {
       _id: abcd,
       attributeId: id_for_threshold_1
       threshold: 10
    },
    {
       _id: abcde,
       attributeId: id_for_threshold_2
       threshold: 5
    }
]

collection_events: [
   {
       uuid: id_for_threshold_1,
       timestamp: 2022-04-01T11:00:00:00.000
       ...
   },
   {
       uuid: id_for_threshold_1,
       timestamp: 2022-03-31T11:00:00:00.000
       ...
   },
   {
       uuid: id_for_threshold_2,
       timestamp: 2022-04-01T11:00:00:00.000
       ...
   },
   {
       uuid: id_for_threshold_2,
       timestamp: 2022-03-31T11:00:00:00.000
       ...
   }
]

In the above example the collection_events may hold only 10 documents with the uuid: id_for_threshold_1, when the 11th event gets written the oldest one (based on the timestamp) should automatically get deleted, similarly for the documents with the uuid: id_for_threshold_2, this should happen already for the 6th insert.

Is there a way to achieve this using mongo indexes?

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Hi @Jayesh_Sarswat ,

For this complex logic you will need to implement some scheduled code which will at least set an expired time on the documents to be used by expiration delay of 0:

Thanks
Pavel