db.collection.initializeUnorderedBulkOp()¶

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Starting in version 3.2, MongoDB also provides the db.collection.bulkWrite() method for performing bulk write operations.

Definition¶

db.collection.initializeUnorderedBulkOp()¶

Important

mongosh Method

This page documents a mongosh method. This is not the documentation for a language-specific driver such as Node.js.

For MongoDB API drivers, refer to the language-specific :driver:`MongoDB driver documentation </>`.

For the legacy mongo shell documentation, refer to the documentation for the corresponding MongoDB Server release:

:v4.4:`mongo shell v4.4 </mongo>`
mongo shell v4.2

Initializes and returns a new Bulk() operations builder for a collection. The builder constructs an unordered list of write operations that MongoDB executes in bulk.

Behavior¶

Order of Operation¶

With an unordered operations list, MongoDB can execute in parallel the write operations in the list and in any order. If the order of operations matter, use db.collection.initializeOrderedBulkOp() instead.

Execution of Operations¶

When executing an unordered list of operations, MongoDB groups the operations. With an unordered bulk operation, the operations in the list may be reordered to increase performance. As such, applications should not depend on the ordering when performing unordered bulk operations.

Bulk() operations in mongosh and comparable methods in the drivers do not have a limit for the number of operations in a group. To see how the operations are grouped for bulk operation execution, call Bulk.getOperations() after the execution.

Error Handling¶

If an error occurs during the processing of one of the write operations, MongoDB will continue to process remaining write operations in the list.

Example¶

The following initializes a Bulk() operations builder and adds a series of insert operations to add multiple documents:

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var bulk = db.users.initializeUnorderedBulkOp();
bulk.insert( { user: "abc123", status: "A", points: 0 } );
bulk.insert( { user: "ijk123", status: "A", points: 0 } );
bulk.insert( { user: "mop123", status: "P", points: 0 } );
bulk.execute();