Counting data per user with mongo aggregation framework - mongodb

Question

I have a collection, where each document contains user_ids as a property, which is an Array field. Example document(s) would be :
[{
_id: 'i3oi1u31o2yi12o3i1',
unique_prop: 33,
prop1: 'some string value',
prop2: 212,
user_ids: [1, 2, 3 ,4]
},
{
_id: 'i3oi1u88ffdfi12o3i1',
unique_prop: 34,
prop1: 'some string value',
prop2: 216,
user_ids: [2, 3 ,4]
},
{
_id: 'i3oi1u8834432ddsda12o3i1',
unique_prop: 35,
prop1: 'some string value',
prop2: 211,
user_ids: [2]
}]
My goal is to get number of documents per user, so sample output would be :
[
{user_id: 1, count: 1},
{user_id: 2, count: 3},
{user_id: 3, count: 2},
{user_id: 4, count: 2}
]
I've tried couple of things none of which worked, lastly I tried :
aggregate([
{ $group: {
_id: { unique_prop: "$unique_prop"},
users: { "$addToSet": "$user_ids" },
count: { "$sum": 1 }
}}
]
But it just returned the users per document. I m still trying to learn the any resource or advice would help.

Answer 1

You need to $unwind the "user_ids" array and in the $group stage count the number of time each "id" appears in the collection.
db.collection.aggregate([
{ "$unwind": "$user_ids" },
{ "$group": { "_id": "$user_ids", "count": {"$sum": 1 }}}
])

Answer 2

MongoDB aggregation performs computation on group of values from documents in a collection and return computed result through executing its stages in a pipeline.
According to above mentioned description please try executing following aggregate query in MongoDB shell.
db.collection.aggregate(
// Pipeline
[
// Stage 1
{
$unwind: "$user_ids"
},
// Stage 2
{
$group: {
_id:{user_id:'$user_ids'},
total:{$sum:1}
}
},
// Stage 3
{
$project: {
_id:0,
user_id:'$_id.user_id',
count:'$total'
}
},
]
);
In above aggregate query initially $unwind operator breaks an array field user_ids of each document into multiple documents for each element of array field and then it groups documents by value of user_ids field contained into each document and performs summation of documents for each value of user_ids field.