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Service: documentdb · 2026-03-31 · Documentation low

File: documentdb/latest/developerguide/merge.md

Summary

Added comprehensive documentation for the $merge aggregation stage in Amazon DocumentDB, including parameters, examples in MongoDB Shell, Node.js, and Python, and usage scenarios.

Security assessment

This change adds documentation for a new aggregation operator ($merge) in Amazon DocumentDB. There is no evidence of addressing a security vulnerability, weakness, or incident. The documentation focuses on feature functionality, parameters, and usage examples. The code examples include standard TLS connection parameters but this is routine security practice, not a new security feature or fix.

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+Example (MongoDB Shell)Code examples
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+# $merge
+
+Introduced in 8.0
+
+The `$merge` aggregation stage in Amazon DocumentDB is used to merge the results of the previous pipeline stage into a target collection. This is useful for updating or inserting documents in a target collection based on the data from the input documents.
+
+The `$merge` stage allows you to perform various actions based on the matching condition between the input documents and the target collection, such as:
+    
+    
+    - Insert new documents
+    - Update existing documents
+    - Delete documents
+    - Fail the operation if there are any conflicts
+
+**Parameters**
+
+  * `into`: (required) The name of the target collection to merge the input documents into.
+
+  * `on`: (required) The field(s) to use as the matching condition between the input documents and the target collection.
+
+  * `whenMatched`: (optional) The action to perform when the input document matches an existing document in the target collection. Supported values are: `"merge"`, `"replace"`, `"keepExisting"`, and `"fail"`.
+
+  * `whenNotMatched`: (optional) The action to perform when the input document does not match any document in the target collection. Supported values are: `"insert"` and `"fail"`.
+
+
+
+
+## Example (MongoDB Shell)
+
+The following example demonstrates how to use the `$merge` stage to update a `users` collection with new data from an input pipeline.
+
+**Create sample documents**
+    
+    
+    db.users.insertMany([
+      { _id: 1, name: "John Doe", email: "[email protected]" },
+      { _id: 2, name: "Jane Smith", email: "[email protected]" }
+    ]);
+    
+    db.inputData.insertMany([
+      { _id: 1, name: "John Doe", email: "[email protected]", phone: "123-456-7890" },
+      { _id: 3, name: "Bob Johnson", email: "[email protected]", phone: "987-654-3210" }
+    ]);
+
+**Query example**
+    
+    
+    db.inputData.aggregate([
+      {
+        $merge: {
+          into: "users",
+          on: "_id",
+          whenMatched: "merge",
+          whenNotMatched: "insert"
+        }
+      }
+    ])
+
+**Output**
+
+After running the `$merge` pipeline, the `users` collection will contain the following documents:
+    
+    
+    [
+      { _id: 1, name: "John Doe", email: "[email protected]", phone: "123-456-7890" },
+      { _id: 2, name: "Jane Smith", email: "[email protected]" },
+      { _id: 3, name: "Bob Johnson", email: "[email protected]", phone: "987-654-3210" }
+    ]
+
+## Code examples
+
+To view a code example for using the `$merge` command, choose the tab for the language that you want to use:
+
+Node.js
+    
+
+Here's an example of using the $merge operator in a Node.js application:
+    
+    
+    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');
+    
+      await db.collection('inputData').aggregate([
+        {
+          $merge: {
+            into: 'users',
+            on: '_id',
+            whenMatched: 'merge',
+            whenNotMatched: 'insert'
+          }
+        }
+      ]).toArray();
+    
+      const users = await db.collection('users').find({}).toArray();
+      console.log(users);
+    
+      await client.close();
+    }
+    
+    example();
+
+Python
+    
+
+Here's an example of using the $merge operator in a Python application:
+    
+    
+    from pymongo import MongoClient
+    
+    def example():
+        client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
+        db = client['test']
+    
+        # Assumes collections 'users' and 'inputData' already exist with sample data
+        db.inputData.aggregate([
+            {
+                '$merge': {
+                    'into': 'users',
+                    'on': '_id',
+                    'whenMatched': 'merge',
+                    'whenNotMatched': 'insert'
+                }
+            }
+        ])
+    
+        users = list(db.users.find({}))
+        print(users)
+    
+        client.close()
+    
+    example()
+
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