Mongodb Group Values by Multiple Fields

Question

For example, I have these documents:

{
  "addr": "address1",
  "book": "book1"
},
{
  "addr": "address2",
  "book": "book1"
},
{
  "addr": "address1",
  "book": "book5"
},
{
  "addr": "address3",
  "book": "book9"
},
{
  "addr": "address2",
  "book": "book5"
},
{
  "addr": "address2",
  "book": "book1"
},
{
  "addr": "address1",
  "book": "book1"
},
{
  "addr": "address15",
  "book": "book1"
},
{
  "addr": "address9",
  "book": "book99"
},
{
  "addr": "address90",
  "book": "book33"
},
{
  "addr": "address4",
  "book": "book3"
},
{
  "addr": "address5",
  "book": "book1"
},
{
  "addr": "address77",
  "book": "book11"
},
{
  "addr": "address1",
  "book": "book1"
}

and so on.

How can I make a request, which will describe the top N addresses and the top M books per address?

Example of expected result:

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In modern MongoDB releases you can brute force this with $slice just off the basic aggregation result. For "large" results, run parallel queries instead for each grouping ( a demonstration listing is at the end of the answer ), or wait for SERVER-9377 to resolve, which would allow a "limit" to the number of items to $push to an array.

db.books.aggregate([
    { "$group": {
        "_id": {
            "addr": "$addr",
            "book": "$book"
        },
        "bookCount": { "$sum": 1 }
    }},
    { "$group": {
        "_id": "$_id.addr",
        "books": { 
            "$push": { 
                "book": "$_id.book",
                "count": "$bookCount"
            },
        },
        "count": { "$sum": "$bookCount" }
    }},
    { "$sort": { "count": -1 } },
    { "$limit": 2 },
    { "$project": {
        "books": { "$slice": [ "$books", 2 ] },
        "count": 1
    }}
])

Mongodb Group Values by Multiple Fields

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Sophia Al-Mansoor