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:
DQL
EVICT FROM your_collection_name
WHERE [condition]
EVICT FROM your_collection_name
WHERE [condition]
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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.
Examples Deleting Documents
Here, documents from the cars collection that have the document ID 123 get removed from the Ditto store:
DQL
EVICT FROM cars
WHERE _id = '123'
EVICT FROM cars
WHERE _id = '123'
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As another example, the following snippet, once executed, results in the deletion of documents with timestamps greater than a certain value:
DQL
EVICT FROM cars
WHERE some_time_stamp > 1699888298000
EVICT FROM cars
WHERE some_time_stamp > 1699888298000
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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)
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Updated 06 Sep 2024

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