Sou totalmente novo no MongoDB e venho de um background SQL.

Estou tentando fazer isso:

Get the top Artists, based on the number of Dubs.

Estrutura de dados :

Artists = [
  {
    "dubs": [{...},{...},{...}],
    "name": "The Doors",
    "createdAt": "2014-12-15T15:24:26.216Z",
    "updatedAt": "2014-12-15T15:24:26.216Z",
    "id": "548efd2a436c850000353f4f"
  },
  {
    "dubs": [],
    "name": "The Beatles",
    "createdAt": "2014-12-15T20:30:33.922Z",
    "updatedAt": "2014-12-15T20:30:33.922Z",
    "id": "548f44e90630d50000e2d61d"
  },
  {...}
]

Portanto, o resultado que eu procurava seria algo como isto:

[{
 _id: "548ef6215755950000a9a0de",
 name:"The Doors",
 total: 3
},{
 _id: "548ef6215715300000a9a1f9",
 name:"The Beatles",
 total: 0
}]

Eu tentei :

Artist.native(function(err, collection) {

  collection.aggregate([ {
    $group: {
      _id: {
        name: "$name"
      },
      total: {
        $size: "$dubs"
      }
    }
  }, {
    $size: {
      total: -1
    }
  }], function(e, r) {
    if (e) res.serverError(e);
    console.log(r);
  });
});

O que me dá

[]

E:

Artist.native(function(err, collection) {
  if (err) return res.serverError(err);

  collection.aggregate({
    $group: {
      _id: "$name",
      total: {
        $sum: 1
      }
    }
  }, {
    $sort: {
      total: -1
    }
  }, function(e, r) {
    console.log(r);
    if (e) return res.serverError(e);
  });
});

O que me dá

[ { _id: 'The Beatles', total: 1 },
{ _id: 'The Doors', total: 1 } ]

obrigado