Cursor Methods

Handling the results of a query on a collection

Cursor methods in MerlinDB are essential features for efficiently retrieving and manipulating data from collections.

Here are the cursor methods used:

sort (Access): Sorts the documents in a collection;

limit (Access): Limits the number of documents returned in a collection;

skip (Access): Skipping a number of documents in a collection;

forEach (Access): Iterates over data from a document in a collection;

pretty (Access): Returns readable documents from a collection;

map (Access): Transforms the documents of a query;

maxTimeMs (Access): Define a maximum time for executing an operation in the query;

hint (Access): Uses indexes to quickly query the collection;

returnKey (Access): Returns only the indexes of a collection;

cursorSize (Access): Returns the number of documents in a query in the collection;

max (Access): Limits a maximum value for a query in the collection;

min (Access): Limits a min value for a query in the collection;