[collections] MongoDB query multiple collections at once

You can use $lookup ( multiple ) to get the records from multiple collections:

Example:

If you have more collections ( I have 3 collections for demo here, you can have more than 3 ). and I want to get the data from 3 collections in single object:

The collection are as:

db.doc1.find().pretty();

{
    "_id" : ObjectId("5901a4c63541b7d5d3293766"),
    "firstName" : "shubham",
    "lastName" : "verma"
}

db.doc2.find().pretty();

{
    "_id" : ObjectId("5901a5f83541b7d5d3293768"),
    "userId" : ObjectId("5901a4c63541b7d5d3293766"),
    "address" : "Gurgaon",
    "mob" : "9876543211"
}

db.doc3.find().pretty();

{
    "_id" : ObjectId("5901b0f6d318b072ceea44fb"),
    "userId" : ObjectId("5901a4c63541b7d5d3293766"),
    "fbURLs" : "http://www.facebook.com",
    "twitterURLs" : "http://www.twitter.com"
}

Now your query will be as below:

db.doc1.aggregate([
    { $match: { _id: ObjectId("5901a4c63541b7d5d3293766") } },
    {
        $lookup:
        {
            from: "doc2",
            localField: "_id",
            foreignField: "userId",
            as: "address"
        }
    },
    {
        $unwind: "$address"
    },
    {
        $project: {
            __v: 0,
            "address.__v": 0,
            "address._id": 0,
            "address.userId": 0,
            "address.mob": 0
        }
    },
    {
        $lookup:
        {
            from: "doc3",
            localField: "_id",
            foreignField: "userId",
            as: "social"
        }
    },
    {
        $unwind: "$social"
    },

  {   
    $project: {      
           __v: 0,      
           "social.__v": 0,      
           "social._id": 0,      
           "social.userId": 0
       }
 }

]).pretty();

Then Your result will be:

{
    "_id" : ObjectId("5901a4c63541b7d5d3293766"),
    "firstName" : "shubham",
    "lastName" : "verma",

    "address" : {
        "address" : "Gurgaon"
    },
    "social" : {
        "fbURLs" : "http://www.facebook.com",
        "twitterURLs" : "http://www.twitter.com"
    }
}

If you want all records from each collections then you should remove below line from query:

{
            $project: {
                __v: 0,
                "address.__v": 0,
                "address._id": 0,
                "address.userId": 0,
                "address.mob": 0
            }
        }

{   
        $project: {      
               "social.__v": 0,      
               "social._id": 0,      
               "social.userId": 0
           }
     }

After removing above code you will get total record as:

{
    "_id" : ObjectId("5901a4c63541b7d5d3293766"),
    "firstName" : "shubham",
    "lastName" : "verma",
    "address" : {
        "_id" : ObjectId("5901a5f83541b7d5d3293768"),
        "userId" : ObjectId("5901a4c63541b7d5d3293766"),
        "address" : "Gurgaon",
        "mob" : "9876543211"
    },
    "social" : {
        "_id" : ObjectId("5901b0f6d318b072ceea44fb"),
        "userId" : ObjectId("5901a4c63541b7d5d3293766"),
        "fbURLs" : "http://www.facebook.com",
        "twitterURLs" : "http://www.twitter.com"
    }
}