Question

Suppose I have a collection with some set of documents. something like this.

{ "_id" : ObjectId("4f127fa55e7242718200002d"), "id":1, "name" : "foo"}
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4f127fa55e7242718200002d"), "id":2, "name" : "bar"}
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4f127fa55e7242718200002d"), "id":3, "name" : "baz"}
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4f127fa55e7242718200002d"), "id":4, "name" : "foo"}
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4f127fa55e7242718200002d"), "id":5, "name" : "bar"}
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4f127fa55e7242718200002d"), "id":6, "name" : "bar"}

I want to find all the duplicated entries in this collection by the “name” field. E.g. “foo” appears twice and “bar” appears 3 times.

Answer 1

Note: this solution is the easiest to understand, but not the best.

You can use mapReduce to find out how many times a document contains a certain field:

var map = function(){
   if(this.name) {
        emit(this.name, 1);
   }
}

var reduce = function(key, values){
    return Array.sum(values);
}

var res = db.collection.mapReduce(map, reduce, {out:{ inline : 1}});
db[res.result].find({value: {$gt: 1}}).sort({value: -1});