MongoDB $gte

Summary: in this tutorial, you will learn how to use the MongoDB $gte operator to select documents where the value of a field is greater than or equal to a specified value.

Introduction to the MongoDB $gte operator

The $gte is a comparison query operator that allows you to select documents where a value of a field is greater than or equal to ( i.e. >=) a specified value.

The $gte operator has the following syntax:

{field: {$gte: value} }
Code language: CSS (css)

MongDB $gte operator examples

We’ll use the following products collection:

db.products.insertMany([
    { "_id" : 1, "name" : "xPhone", "price" : 799, "releaseDate": ISODate("2011-05-14"), "spec" : { "ram" : 4, "screen" : 6.5, "cpu" : 2.66 },"color":["white","black"],"storage":[64,128,256]},
    { "_id" : 2, "name" : "xTablet", "price" : 899, "releaseDate": ISODate("2011-09-01") , "spec" : { "ram" : 16, "screen" : 9.5, "cpu" : 3.66 },"color":["white","black","purple"],"storage":[128,256,512]},
    { "_id" : 3, "name" : "SmartTablet", "price" : 899, "releaseDate": ISODate("2015-01-14"), "spec" : { "ram" : 12, "screen" : 9.7, "cpu" : 3.66 },"color":["blue"],"storage":[16,64,128]},
    { "_id" : 4, "name" : "SmartPad", "price" : 699, "releaseDate": ISODate("2020-05-14"),"spec" : { "ram" : 8, "screen" : 9.7, "cpu" : 1.66 },"color":["white","orange","gold","gray"],"storage":[128,256,1024]},
    { "_id" : 5, "name" : "SmartPhone", "price" : 599,"releaseDate": ISODate("2022-09-14"), "spec" : { "ram" : 4, "screen" : 5.7, "cpu" : 1.66 },"color":["white","orange","gold","gray"],"storage":[128,256]}
 ])
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

1) Using $gte operator to select documents where a field is greater than or equal to a specified value

The following example uses the $gte operator to select documents from the products collection where price is greater than 799:

db.products.find({
    price: {
        $gte: 799
    }
}, {
    name: 1,
    price: 1
})
Code language: CSS (css)

The query returned the following documents:

[
  { _id: 1, name: 'xPhone', price: 799 },
  { _id: 2, name: 'xTablet', price: 899 },
  { _id: 3, name: 'SmartTablet', price: 899 }
]
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

2) Using the $gte operator to check if a field in an embedded document is greater than or equal to a value

The following query uses $gte operator to select documents where the value of the screen field in the spec document is greater than or equal to 9.5:

db.products.find({
    "spec.screen": {
        $gte: 9.5
    }
}, {
    name: 1,
    "spec.screen": 1
})
Code language: PHP (php)

Output:

[
  { _id: 2, name: 'xTablet', spec: { screen: 9.5 } },
  { _id: 3, name: 'SmartTablet', spec: { screen: 9.7 } },
  { _id: 4, name: 'SmartPad', spec: { screen: 9.7 } },
  { _id: 5, name: 'SmartPhone', spec: { screen: 9.7 } }
]
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

3) Using the $gte operator to check if an array element is greater than or equal to a value

The following example uses the $gte operator to query the products collection to find all documents where the array storage has at least one element greater than or equal to 512:

db.products.find({
    storage: {
        $gte: 512
    }
}, {
    name: 1,
    storage: 1
})
Code language: CSS (css)

The query returned the following documents:

[
  { _id: 2, name: 'xTablet', storage: [ 128, 256, 512 ] },
  { _id: 4, name: 'SmartPad', storage: [ 128, 256, 1024 ] }
]
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

4) Using the $gte operator to check if a field is after or on the same date

The following query uses the $gte operator to select documents from the products collection to find all documents where the release date is after or on 2020-05-14:

db.products.find({
    "releaseDate": {
        $gte: new ISODate('2020-05-14')
    }
}, {
    name: 1,
    releaseDate: 1
});
Code language: PHP (php)

The query returned the following documents:

[
  {
    _id: 4,
    name: 'SmartPad',
    releaseDate: ISODate("2020-05-14T00:00:00.000Z")
  },
  {
    _id: 5,
    name: 'SmartPhone',
    releaseDate: ISODate("2022-09-14T00:00:00.000Z")
  }
]
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

Summary

• Use the $gte operator to select documents where a field is greater than or equal to a specified value.