MongoDB — Transactions & Advanced Aggregation ($facet & $merge)

🍃 MongoDB 7.0+ 🟢 Chapter 35 of 50 📂 Phase 07: Aggregation Framework Pipeline 📅 2026 Edition

Execute multi-faceted search queries with $facet and write aggregation output to collections using $merge.

1Multi-Faceted Search with $facet
$facet Parallel Processing
db.products.aggregate([
  {
    $facet: {
      "categorizedCount": [{ $groupBy: { _id: "$category", count: { $sum: 1 } } }],
      "topProducts": [{ $sort: { price: -1 } }, { $limit: 5 }]
    }
  }
]);
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