What does the $skip stage do?

The $skip stage skips the given number of documents and passes on only the ones that follow them. It's the analog of OFFSET in SQL.

#How it works

• receives a sorted or filtered stream of documents
• skips the specified number
• sends the rest to the next stage

#Example

The first 20 documents are skipped, and processing continues from the 21st.

#Where it's used

• pagination, together with $limit
• skipping technical data or the first records that aren't needed in the result

#Summary

$skip is the stage that simply shifts the start of the dataset, removing the first N documents from further processing.