# \$1group
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The `$group` aggregation stage in Amazon DocumentDB allows you to group documents by a specified expression and perform various accumulative operations on the grouped data. This can be useful for tasks such as calculating totals, averages, or other statistics based on the grouped data.

**Parameters**
+ `_id`: Specifies the expression by which the input documents should be grouped. This can be a field name, a computed expression, or a combination of both.
+ `accumulator expressions`: (optional) One or more accumulator expressions that should be applied to the grouped data. These expressions use the accumulator operators mentioned above.

## Example (MongoDB Shell)
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The following example groups customers by their city and calculates the total order amount for each city.

**Create sample documents**

```
db.customers.insertMany([
  { name: "John Doe", city: "New York", orders: [{ amount: 100 }, { amount: 200 }] },
  { name: "Jane Smith", city: "Los Angeles", orders: [{ amount: 150 }, { amount: 300 }] },
  { name: "Bob Johnson", city: "New York", orders: [{ amount: 75 }, { amount: 125 }] },
  { name: "Samantha Lee", city: "Chicago", orders: [{ amount: 50 }, { amount: 100 }] }
]);
```

**Query example**

```
db.customers.aggregate([
  {
    $group: {
      _id: "$city",
      totalOrders: { $sum: { $sum: "$orders.amount" } }
    }
  }
]);
```

**Output**

```
[
  { _id: 'Chicago', totalOrders: 150 },
  { _id: 'Los Angeles', totalOrders: 450 },
  { _id: 'New York', totalOrders: 500 }
]
```

## Code examples
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To view a code example for using the `$group` command, choose the tab for the language that you want to use:

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#### [ Node.js ]

```
const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');

async function groupByCity() {
  const uri = 'mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false';
  const client = new MongoClient(uri);

  try {
    await client.connect();
    const db = client.db('test');
    const result = await db.collection('customers').aggregate([
      { $unwind: '$orders' },
      {
        $group: {
          _id: '$city',
          totalOrders: { $sum: '$orders.amount' }
        }
      }
    ]).toArray();

    console.log(result);
  } catch (err) {
    console.error('Error during aggregation:', err);
  } finally {
    await client.close();
  }
}

groupByCity();
```

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#### [ Python ]

```
from pymongo import MongoClient

def group_by_city():
    client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
    
    try:
        db = client.test
        result = list(db.customers.aggregate([
            {'$unwind': '$orders'},
            {
                '$group': {
                    '_id': '$city',
                    'totalOrders': {'$sum': '$orders.amount'}
                }
            }
        ]))
        print(result)
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Error during aggregation: {e}")
    finally:
        client.close()

group_by_city()
```

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