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$query¶
-
$query
¶ The
$query
operator provides an interface to describe queries. Consider the following operation:This is equivalent to the more familiar
db.collection.find()
method:These operations return only those documents in the collection named
collection
where theage
field equals25
.Note
Do not mix query forms. If you use the
$query
format, do not append cursor methods to thefind()
. To modify the query use the meta-query operators, such as$explain
.Therefore, the following two operations are equivalent:
See also
For more information about queries in MongoDB see Read Operations, Read Operations,
db.collection.find()
, and Getting Started with MongoDB.