When you run queries In MongoDB, you have the option of limiting the documents returned. This is where you specify a maximum number of documents to be returned by the operation.
For example, if an operation would normally return 2,000 documents, but you specify a limit of 1,000, then only 1,000 documents are returned. However, if the operation would only return say, 500 documents, then all 500 are returned (because they don’t breach the 1,000 document limit).
This is a bit like using the TOP
clause in SQL Server, or the LIMIT
clause in MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.