$elemmatch java,MongoDB中的$ elemMatch查询

I have a collection 'name' with 2 documents of the structure :

doc 1:

{

a: 1

b : [{name:"AAA",age:10},

{name:"BBB",age:12},

{name:"CCC",age:13}]

}

doc 2 :

{

a: 2

b : [{name:"DDD",age:14},

{name:"EEE",age:15},

{name:"FFF",age:16}]

}

Since I am new to MongoDB, I am trying to find the difference of using the $elemMatch operator and not using it. Basically I am trying to query and find the first doc ( doc 1) with name AAA and age 10. So using the $elemMatch, my query looks like this :

db.name.find({b: {$elemMatch :{name:"AAA",age:10}}})

This query works perfectly fine, but my question is that what's the need to use this query when I can query like this :

db.name.find({b:{name:"AAA",age:10}})

I am sure there should be some reason for $elemMatch, just trying to find the difference. Thanks in advance for the reply !!!

解决方案

The key difference is that the second query (without the $elemMatch) would only match elements in the b array that only contained those two fields, and only in that order.

So the first query would match the following two documents, but the second query wouldn't:

{

a: 1

b: [{name: "AAA", age: 10, city: 'New York'},

{name: "BBB", age: 12, city: 'Paris'},

{name: "CCC", age: 13, city: 'London'}]

}

{

a: 1,

b: [{age: 10, name: "AAA"},

{name: "BBB", age: 12},

{name: "CCC", age: 13}]

}