$size

The $size query operator matches documents where an array field has exactly the specified number of elements. This is useful for filtering documents based on array length.

Parameters

Example (MongoDB Shell)

The following example demonstrates using the $size operator to find all products that have exactly three tags.

Create sample documents

db.products.insertMany([
  { _id: 1, name: "Laptop", tags: ["electronics", "computers", "portable"] },
  { _id: 2, name: "Mouse", tags: ["electronics", "accessories"] },
  { _id: 3, name: "Desk", tags: ["furniture", "office", "workspace"] },
  { _id: 4, name: "Monitor", tags: ["electronics"] }
]);

Query example

db.products.find({ tags: { $size: 3 } });

Output

{ "_id" : 1, "name" : "Laptop", "tags" : [ "electronics", "computers", "portable" ] }
{ "_id" : 3, "name" : "Desk", "tags" : [ "furniture", "office", "workspace" ] }

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('products');

  const result = await collection.find({ tags: { $size: 3 } }).toArray();

  console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2));
  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['products']

    result = list(collection.find({'tags': {'$size': 3}}))

    print(result)
    client.close()

example()