$concat

The $concat aggregation operator in Amazon DocumentDB concatenates (or combines) multiple strings in a document to produce a single string that can be returned to the application. This reduces the work done in the application, as the string manipulation is performed at the database level.

Parameters

Example (MongoDB Shell)

In this example, we concatenate the first and last names of users to produce each person's full name.

Create sample documents

db.people.insertMany([
  { "_id":1, "first_name":"Jane", "last_name":"Doe", "DOB":"2/1/1999", "Desk": "MSP102-MN"},
  { "_id":2, "first_name":"John", "last_name":"Doe", "DOB":"12/21/1992", "Desk": "DSM301-IA"},
  { "_id":3, "first_name":"Steve", "last_name":"Smith", "DOB":"3/21/1981", "Desk":"MKE233-WI"}
])

Query example

db.people.aggregate([
  { $project: { full_name: { $concat: [ "$first_name", " ", "$last_name"] } } }
])

Output

{ "_id" : 1, "full_name" : "Jane Doe" }
{ "_id" : 2, "full_name" : "John Doe" }
{ "_id" : 3, "full_name" : "Steve Smith" }

Code examples

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Node.js

const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');

async function concatenateNames() {
  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 result = await db.collection('people').aggregate([
    { $project: { full_name: { $concat: [ "$first_name", " ", "$last_name"] } } }
  ]).toArray();

  console.log(result);

  await client.close();
}

concatenateNames();

Python

from pymongo import MongoClient

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

    result = list(db.people.aggregate([
        { '$project': { 'full_name': { '$concat': [ '$first_name', ' ', '$last_name' ] } } }
    ]))

    print(result)

    client.close()

concatenate_names()