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aggregation can sort using index to speed up group of an indexed field

    • Type: Icon: Improvement Improvement
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • Priority: Icon: Major - P3 Major - P3
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    • Affects Version/s: 2.4.7, 2.5.3
    • Component/s: Aggregation Framework
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      If "$group" is grouping on an indexed field F and if all the functions are not dependent on the rest of the document (such as $sum:1 aka count) huge improvement can be made in performance by adding '{$sort:{F:1'}} before the '{$group}'

      Tested on large collection (TPCH orders denormalized with lineitems inside) about 1.5 million documents aggregating by order date (2600 different dates) all after warming the data first:

      Without sort: 18-19 seconds
      With sort: 2.5-2.6 seconds

      On really small datasets I still see at least 25%-33% improvement with $sort so if we can do that "automatically" that would help performance.

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            asya.kamsky@mongodb.com Asya Kamsky
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