Adding new property to each document in a large collection

Question

Using the mongodb shell, I'm trying to add a new property to each document in a large collection. The collection (Listing) has an existing property called Address. I'm simply trying to add a new property called LowerCaseAddress which can be used for searching so that I don't need to use a case-insensitive regex for address matching, which is slow.

Here is the script I tried to use in the shell:

for( var c = db.Listing.find(); c.hasNext(); ) {
   var listing = c.next();
   db.Listing.update( { LowerCaseAddress: listing.Address.toLowerCase() });
}

It ran for ~6 hours and then my PC crashed. Is there a better way to add a new property to each documentin a large collection (~4 million records)?

Answer 1

You can use updateMany for this too:

try {
 db.<collection>.updateMany( {}, {$set: { LowerCaseAddress: 
 item.Address.toLowerCase() } } );
} catch(e) { 
  print(e);}