Overview of MongoDB Aggregation Methods
MongoDB provides three primary ways to process data records and return computed results (such as averages or sums):
- Single-collection aggregation: Simple access to common aggregation processes operating on a single collection.
- Aggregation Pipeline: A data processing framework where documents pass through a multi-stage pipeline to be transformed into a final result.
- MapReduce: A two-stage process consisting of a 'map' phase (emitting objects for each input document) and a 'reduce' phase (combining the map outputs).