EVICT
The EVICT operation removes one or more documents from the local Ditto store, deleting them entirely without flagging (tombstone) as deleted to remote peers:
In this syntax:
- your_collection_name is the name of the collection from which you want to retrieve the data.
- [condition] represents the condition or criteria that determine which documents should be evicted from the local peer.
Here, documents from the cars collection that have the document ID 123 get removed from the Ditto store:
As another example, the following snippet, once executed, results in the deletion of documents with timestamps greater than a certain value:
To remove a specific field from a document, use an UPDATE statement to tombstone that field. A tombstone is a flag signaling to remote peers that the DQL data type has been removed. (See UPDATE)
Updated 06 Sep 2024
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