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parallelCollectionScan¶
- parallelCollectionScan¶
New in version 2.6.
Allows applications to use multiple parallel cursors when reading all the documents from a collection, thereby increasing throughput. The parallelCollectionScan command returns a document that contains an array of cursor information.
The command has the following syntax:
{ parallelCollectionScan: "<collection>", numCursors: <integer> }
The parallelCollectionScan command takes the following fields:
Field Type Description parallelCollectionScan string The name of the collection. numCursors integer The maximum number of cursors to return. Must be between 1 and 10000, inclusive.