Running MongoDB Queries in Map/Reduce

Is it possible to run MongoDB commands like a query to grab additional data or to do an update from with in MongoDB's MapReduce command. Either in the Map or the Reduce function?

Is this completely ludicrous to do anyways? 开发者_如何学GoCurrently I have some documents that refer to separate collections using the MongoDB DBReference command.

Thanks for the help!

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Is it possible to run MongoDB commands... from within MongoDB's MapReduce command.

In theory, this is possible. In practice there are lots of problems with this.

• Problem #1: exponential work. M/R is already pretty intense and poorly logged. Adding queries can easily make M/R run out of control.
• Problem #2: context. Imagine that you're running a sharded M/R and you are querying into an unsharded collection. Does the current context even have that connection?

You're basically trying to implement JOIN logic and MongoDB has no joins. Instead, you may need to build the final data in a couple of phases by running a few loops on a few sets of data.