Aggregation Commands

Note

For details on specific commands, including syntax and examples, click on the specific command to go to its reference page.

Name	Description
`aggregate`	Performs aggregation tasks such as `$group` using an aggregation pipeline.
`count`	Counts the number of documents in a collection or a view.
`distinct`	Displays the distinct values found for a specified key in a collection or a view.
`mapReduce`	Performs map-reduce aggregation for large data sets.

For a detailed comparison of the different approaches, see Aggregation Commands Comparison.