AWS documentdb documentation change

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

File: documentdb/latest/developerguide/sort.md

Summary

Added new documentation page for the $sort aggregation stage in Amazon DocumentDB, including syntax, parameters, MongoDB shell example, and code examples in Node.js and Python

Security assessment

This change adds standard documentation for a MongoDB aggregation operator ($sort) with no mention of security vulnerabilities, patches, or security incidents. The code examples include standard TLS connection parameters (tls=true, tlsCAFile) which are routine security best practices for DocumentDB connections, but these are not new security features being documented - they're standard connection parameters shown in examples.

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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
+
+# $sort
+
+The `$sort` aggregation stage orders documents in the pipeline based on specified field values. Documents are arranged in ascending or descending order according to the sort criteria provided.
+
+**Parameters**
+
+  * `field`: The field name to sort by.
+
+  * `order`: Use `1` for ascending order or `-1` for descending order.
+
+
+
+
+## Example (MongoDB Shell)
+
+The following example demonstrates using the `$sort` stage to order products by price in descending order.
+
+**Create sample documents**
+    
+    
+    db.products.insertMany([
+      { _id: 1, name: "Laptop", category: "Electronics", price: 1200 },
+      { _id: 2, name: "Mouse", category: "Electronics", price: 25 },
+      { _id: 3, name: "Desk", category: "Furniture", price: 350 },
+      { _id: 4, name: "Chair", category: "Furniture", price: 150 },
+      { _id: 5, name: "Monitor", category: "Electronics", price: 400 }
+    ]);
+
+**Query example**
+    
+    
+    db.products.aggregate([
+      { $sort: { price: -1 } }
+    ]);
+
+**Output**
+    
+    
+    [
+      { _id: 1, name: 'Laptop', category: 'Electronics', price: 1200 },
+      { _id: 5, name: 'Monitor', category: 'Electronics', price: 400 },
+      { _id: 3, name: 'Desk', category: 'Furniture', price: 350 },
+      { _id: 4, name: 'Chair', category: 'Furniture', price: 150 },
+      { _id: 2, name: 'Mouse', category: 'Electronics', price: 25 }
+    ]
+
+## Code examples
+
+To view a code example for using the `$sort` aggregation stage, choose the tab for the language that you want to use:
+
+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('products');
+    
+      const result = await collection.aggregate([
+        { $sort: { price: -1 } }
+      ]).toArray();
+    
+      console.log(result);
+      await client.close();
+    }
+    
+    example();
+
+Python
+    
+    
+    
+    from pymongo import MongoClient
+    
+    def example():
+        client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
+        db = client['test']
+        collection = db['products']
+    
+        result = list(collection.aggregate([
+            { '$sort': { 'price': -1 } }
+        ]))
+    
+        print(result)
+        client.close()
+    
+    example()
+
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