$lt

The $lt operator in Amazon DocumentDB is used to match values that are less than the specified value. This operator is useful for filtering and querying data based on numerical comparisons.

Parameters

Example (MongoDB Shell)

The following example demonstrates how to use the $lt operator to retrieve documents where the Inventory.OnHand value is less than 50.

Create sample documents

db.example.insertMany([
  { "_id": 1, "Inventory": { "OnHand": 25, "Sold": 60 }, "Colors": ["Red", "Blue"] },
  { "_id": 2, "Inventory": { "OnHand": 75, "Sold": 40 }, "Colors": ["Red", "White"] },
  { "_id": 3, "Inventory": { "OnHand": 10, "Sold": 85 }, "Colors": ["Red", "Green"] }
]);

Query example

db.example.find({ "Inventory.OnHand": { $lt: 50 } })

Output

{ "_id" : 1, "Inventory" : { "OnHand" : 25, "Sold" : 60 }, "Colors" : [ "Red", "Blue" ] }
{ "_id" : 3, "Inventory" : { "OnHand" : 10, "Sold" : 85 }, "Colors" : [ "Red", "Green" ] }

Code examples

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Node.js

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

async function example() {
  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('example');

  const result = await collection.find({ "Inventory.OnHand": { $lt: 50 } }).toArray();
  console.log(result);

  await client.close();
}

example();

Python

from pymongo import MongoClient

def example():
    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['example']

    result = list(collection.find({ "Inventory.OnHand": { "$lt": 50 } }))
    print(result)

    client.close()

example()