MongoDB Limit and Skip Methods
MongoDB Limit() Method
If you need to read a specified number of data records in MongoDB, you can use the MongoDB Limit method. The limit()
method accepts a numeric parameter that specifies the number of records to read from MongoDB.
Syntax
The basic syntax of the limit()
method is as follows:
>db.COLLECTION_NAME.find().limit(NUMBER)
Example
The data in the collection col
is as follows:
{ "_id" : ObjectId("56066542ade2f21f36b0313a"), "title" : "PHP Tutorial", "description" : "PHP is a powerful server-side scripting language for creating dynamic and interactive websites.", "by" : "tutorialpro.org", "url" : "http://www.tutorialpro.org", "tags" : [ "php" ], "likes" : 200 }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("56066549ade2f21f36b0313b"), "title" : "Java Tutorial", "description" : "Java is a high-level programming language introduced by Sun Microsystems in May 1995.", "by" : "tutorialpro.org", "url" : "http://www.tutorialpro.org", "tags" : [ "java" ], "likes" : 150 }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5606654fade2f21f36b0313c"), "title" : "MongoDB Tutorial", "description" : "MongoDB is a NoSQL database", "by" : "tutorialpro.org", "url" : "http://www.tutorialpro.org", "tags" : [ "mongodb" ], "likes" : 100 }
The following example displays two records from the query document:
> db.col.find({},{"title":1,_id:0}).limit(2)
{ "title" : "PHP Tutorial" }
{ "title" : "Java Tutorial" }
>
Note: If you do not specify a parameter in the limit()
method, all data in the collection will be displayed.
MongoDB Skip() Method
In addition to using the limit()
method to read a specified number of data, you can also use the skip()
method to skip a specified number of data. The skip()
method also accepts a numeric parameter as the number of records to skip.
Syntax
The script syntax for the skip()
method is as follows:
>db.COLLECTION_NAME.find().limit(NUMBER).skip(NUMBER)
Example
The following example will only display the second document data:
>db.col.find({},{"title":1,_id:0}).limit(1).skip(1)
{ "title" : "Java Tutorial" }
>
Note: The default parameter for the skip()
method is 0.