Select distinct rows from MongoDB

Question

How do you select distinct records in MongoDB? This is a pretty basic db functionality I believe but I can't seem to find this anywhere else.

Suppose I have a table as follows

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| Name    | Age          |
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|John     | 12           |
|Ben      | 14           |
|Robert   | 14           |
|Ron      | 12           |
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I would like to run something like SELECT DISTINCT age FROM names WHERE 1;

Answer 1

db.names.distinct('age')

Answer 2

Looks like there is a SQL mapping chart that I overlooked earlier.

Now is a good time to say that using a distinct selection isn't the best way to go around querying things. Either cache the list in another collection or keep your data set small.