This seems like it should be very simple but I can’t get it to work. I want to select all documents A where there are one or more B elements in a sub collection.
Like if a Store document had a collection of Employees. I just want to find Stores with 1 or more Employees in it.
I tried something like:
{Store.Employees:{$size:{$ne:0}}}
or
{Store.Employees:{$size:{$gt:0}}}
Just can’t get it to work.
This isn’t supported. You basically only can get documents in which array size is equal to the value. Range searches you can’t do.
What people normally do is that they cache array length in a separate field in the same document. Then they index that field and make very efficient queries.
Of course, this requires a little bit more work from you (not forgetting to keep that length field current).