MongoDB Querying Large Collections
I figured this out sort of.
I managed to get the index working with by adding an index to the Mongoose Schema:
timestamp: { type: Date, index: true, default: Date.now}, Then using the following function to perform the query.
function getResultsInRange(startDate, endDate) { if(typeof startDate !== 'undefined' && typeof endDate !== 'undefined') { Price.find({timestamp: {$gte: startDate, $lte: endDate}}, 'price timestamp exchange') .sort('-timestamp') .populate('exchange') .exec(function(err, prices) { if(err) { res.jsonp({'error': err}); } else { res.jsonp(prices); } }); }} The above works with up to a 14 day range between startDate, and endDate, although it takes about 20 seconds to run even with the index.