如果你的目标集合不是很大，你可以在mongo shell客户端下尝试:

var allKeys = {};

db.YOURCOLLECTION.find().forEach(function(doc){Object.keys(doc).forEach(function(key){allKeys[key]=1})});

allKeys;

你可以用MapReduce来做:

mr = db.runCommand({
  "mapreduce" : "my_collection",
  "map" : function() {
    for (var key in this) { emit(key, null); }
  },
  "reduce" : function(key, stuff) { return null; }, 
  "out": "my_collection" + "_keys"
})

然后在结果集合上单独运行，以便找到所有的键:

db[mr.result].distinct("_id")
["foo", "bar", "baz", "_id", ...]

使用pymongo进行清理和可重用的解决方案:

from pymongo import MongoClient
from bson import Code

def get_keys(db, collection):
    client = MongoClient()
    db = client[db]
    map = Code("function() { for (var key in this) { emit(key, null); } }")
    reduce = Code("function(key, stuff) { return null; }")
    result = db[collection].map_reduce(map, reduce, "myresults")
    return result.distinct('_id')

用法:

get_keys('dbname', 'collection')
>> ['key1', 'key2', ... ]

以Kristina的回答为灵感，我创建了一个名为Variety的开源工具，它的功能就是:https://github.com/variety/variety

下面是用Python编写的示例: 这个示例内联返回结果。

from pymongo import MongoClient
from bson.code import Code

mapper = Code("""
    function() {
                  for (var key in this) { emit(key, null); }
               }
""")
reducer = Code("""
    function(key, stuff) { return null; }
""")

distinctThingFields = db.things.map_reduce(mapper, reducer
    , out = {'inline' : 1}
    , full_response = True)
## do something with distinctThingFields['results']

我试着用nodejs写，最后想到了这个:

db.collection('collectionName').mapReduce(
function() {
    for (var key in this) {
        emit(key, null);
    }
},
function(key, stuff) {
    return null;
}, {
    "out": "allFieldNames"
},
function(err, results) {
    var fields = db.collection('allFieldNames').distinct('_id');
    fields
        .then(function(data) {
            var finalData = {
                "status": "success",
                "fields": data
            };
            res.send(finalData);
            delteCollection(db, 'allFieldNames');
        })
        .catch(function(err) {
            res.send(err);
            delteCollection(db, 'allFieldNames');
        });
 });

读取新创建的集合“allFieldNames”后，删除它。

db.collection("allFieldNames").remove({}, function (err,result) {
     db.close();
     return; 
});