Company
Date Published
Author
David Macias
Word count
996
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The new Lookup Field feature in MongoDB Charts allows users to join data from two collections or sources within the chart builder, creating a single chart with just a few clicks. This enables finding deeper insights by leveraging more data in a single visualization, and empowers more robust insights. The feature makes it easier, quicker, and more intuitive to bring fields from a second data source into the chart builder, even for MongoDB Query Language (MQL) power users. With the Lookup Field, users can visualize fields from each dataset in a single chart, without needing to write code or queries, reducing the need for complex data architectures that include many tables of data referencing each other.