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Find largest document in MongoDB and its size

  • Tuesday, August 16, 2016
  • by hbopuri

db.CollectionName.find().toArray().map(function(request) { 
return {   size:Object.bsonsize(request), _id:request._id};   } )
.sort(function(a, b) { return a.size-b.size; }).pop();

Result (size is in bytes) // { "_id" : "DocumentUniqueId", "size" : 9999 }