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What is the purpose of an aggregation pipeline’s $facet stage?

Mid MongoDB
Quick Answer $facet runs multiple sub-pipelines on the same input in parallel, each producing a different result in the output. Useful for building faceted search results - one sub-pipeline counts by category, another by price range, another for the actual results. All computed in one aggregation pass instead of multiple queries.

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$facet allows running multiple aggregations in parallel on the same input, useful for dashboards requiring different metrics from one dataset.
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