$not - Amazon DocumentDB
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$not

The $not operator is used to negate the result of a given expression. It allows you to select documents where the specified condition does not match.

Planner version 2.0 added index support for $not {eq} and $not {in}.

Parameters

  • expression: The expression to negate.

Example (MongoDB Shell)

The following example demonstrates how to use the $not operator to find documents where the status field is not equal to "active".

Create sample documents

db.users.insertMany([
  { name: "John", status: "active" },
  { name: "Jane", status: "inactive" },
  { name: "Bob", status: "pending" },
  { name: "Alice", status: "active" }
]);

Query example

db.users.find({ status: { $not: { $eq: "active" } } });

Output

[
  {
    _id: ObjectId('...'),
    name: 'Jane',
    status: 'inactive'
  },
  {
    _id: ObjectId('...'),
    name: 'Bob',
    status: 'pending'
  }
]

Code examples

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

async function main() {
  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 collection = db.collection('users');

  const result = await collection.find({
    status: { $not: { $eq: "active" } }
  }).toArray();

  console.log(result);

  await client.close();
}

main();
Python
from pymongo import MongoClient
from bson.son import SON

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

result = collection.find({
    "status": {"$not": {"$eq": "active"}}
})

for doc in result:
    print(doc)

client.close()