MongoDb query condition on comparing 2 fields

Diego Cheng picture Diego Cheng · Dec 14, 2010 · Viewed 102.3k times · Source

I have a collection T, with 2 fields: Grade1 and Grade2, and I want to select those with condition Grade1 > Grade2, how can I get a query like in MySQL?

Select * from T Where Grade1 > Grade2

Answer

Ian picture Ian · Dec 14, 2010

You can use a $where. Just be aware it will be fairly slow (has to execute Javascript code on every record) so combine with indexed queries if you can.

db.T.find( { $where: function() { return this.Grade1 > this.Grade2 } } );

or more compact:

db.T.find( { $where : "this.Grade1 > this.Grade2" } );

UPD for mongodb v.3.6+

you can use $expr as described in recent answer