$max - Amazon DocumentDB
Example (MongoDB Shell)Code examples
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$max

The $max aggregation stage is used to return the maximum value of a specified field across all documents in a pipeline stage. This operator is useful for finding the highest value in a set of documents.

Parameters

  • expression: The expression to use to calculate the maximum value.

Example (MongoDB Shell)

The following example demonstrates how to use the $max operator to find the maximum score in a collection of student documents. The $group stage groups all documents together, and the $max operator is used to calculate the maximum value of the score field across all documents.

Create sample documents

db.students.insertMany([
  { name: "John", score: 85 },
  { name: "Jane", score: 92 },
  { name: "Bob", score: 78 },
  { name: "Alice", score: 90 }
])

Query example

db.students.aggregate([
  { $group: { _id: null, maxScore: { $max: "$score" } } },
  { $project: { _id: 0, maxScore: 1 } }
])

Output

[ { maxScore: 92 } ]

Code examples

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Node.js
const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');

async function findMaxScore() {
  const client = await MongoClient.connect('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false');
  const db = client.db('test');
  const students = db.collection('students');

  const result = await students.aggregate([
    { $group: { _id: null, maxScore: { $max: "$score" } } }
  ]).toArray();

  console.log(result);
  await client.close();
}

findMaxScore();
Python
from pymongo import MongoClient

def find_max_score():
    client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
    db = client['test']
    students = db.students

    result = list(students.aggregate([
        { "$group": { "_id": None, "maxScore": { "$max": "$score" } } }
    ]))

    print(result)
    client.close()

find_max_score()