Conditional $sum in MongoDB

Aafreen Sheikh picture Aafreen Sheikh · Dec 31, 2012 · Viewed 41.6k times · Source

My collection in mongodb is similar to the following table in SQL:

Sentiments(Company,Sentiment)

Now, I need to execute a query like this:

SELECT
  Company, 
  SUM(CASE WHEN Sentiment >0 THEN Sentiment ELSE 0 END) AS SumPosSenti, 
  SUM(CASE WHEN Sentiment <0 THEN Sentiment ELSE 0 END) AS SumNegSenti
FROM Sentiments
GROUP BY Company

What should I do to write this query in Mongo? I am stuck at the following query:

db.Sentiments.aggregate(
{ $project: {_id:0, Company:1, Sentiment: 1} },
{ $group: {_id: "$Company", SumPosSenti: {$sum: ? }, SumNegSenti: {$sum: ? } } }
);

Answer

JohnnyHK picture JohnnyHK · Dec 31, 2012

As Sammaye suggested, you need to use the $cond aggregation projection operator to do this:

db.Sentiments.aggregate(
    { $project: {
        _id: 0,
        Company: 1,
        PosSentiment: {$cond: [{$gt: ['$Sentiment', 0]}, '$Sentiment', 0]},
        NegSentiment: {$cond: [{$lt: ['$Sentiment', 0]}, '$Sentiment', 0]}
    }},
    { $group: {
        _id: "$Company",
        SumPosSentiment: {$sum: '$PosSentiment'},
        SumNegSentiment: {$sum: '$NegSentiment'}
    }});