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Service: documentdb · 2026-03-28 · Documentation low

File: documentdb/latest/developerguide/rand.md

Summary

Entire documentation page for the $rand operator was removed, including all examples, code samples, and explanatory content

Security assessment

This change removes general documentation about the $rand operator functionality in Amazon DocumentDB. There is no evidence in the diff of security vulnerabilities, security fixes, or security-related content being added. The removed content appears to be standard operational documentation without security implications.

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-[Documentation](/index.html)[Amazon DocumentDB](/documentdb/index.html)[Developer Guide](what-is.html)
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-Example (MongoDB Shell)Code examples
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-# $rand
-
-New from version 8.0
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-The `$rand` operator in Amazon DocumentDB is used to generate a random number between 0 and 1.
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-**Parameters**
-
-None
-
-## Example (MongoDB Shell)
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-The following example demonstrates how to use the `$rand` operator to randomly select two documents from the `temp` collection.
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-**Create sample documents**
-    
-    
-    db.items.insertMany([
-      { "name": "pencil", "quantity": 110 },
-      { "name": "pen", "quantity": 159 }
-    ])
-
-**Query example**
-    
-    
-    db.items.aggregate([
-      {
-        $project: {
-          randomValue: { $rand: {} }
-        }
-      }
-    ])
-
-**Output**
-    
-    
-    [
-      {
-        _id: ObjectId('6924a5edd66dcae121d29517'),
-        randomValue: 0.8615243955294392
-      },
-      {
-        _id: ObjectId('6924a5edd66dcae121d29518'),
-        randomValue: 0.22815483022099903
-      }
-    ]
-
-## Code examples
-
-To view a code example for using the `$rand` command, choose the tab for the language that you want to use:
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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('items');
-    
-      const result = await collection.aggregate([
-        {
-          $project: {
-            randomValue: { $rand: {} }
-          }
-        }
-      ]).toArray();
-    
-      console.log(result);
-    
-      await client.close();
-    }
-    
-    example();
-
-Python
-    
-    
-    
-    from pymongo import MongoClient
-    
-    def example():
-      client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
-      db = client['test']
-      collection = db['items']
-    
-      result = list(collection.aggregate([
-          {
-            "$project": {
-              "randomValue": { "$rand": {} }
-            }
-          }
-      ]))
-    
-      print(result)
-    
-      client.close()
-    
-    example()
-
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-[Document Conventions](/general/latest/gr/docconventions.html)
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-$project
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-$range
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