Delete

This operation deletes entities by their IDs or with a boolean expression.

POST

/v2/vectordb/entities/delete

Cluster Endpoint

The base URL for this API is in the following format:

https://${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}

📘Notes

• You need to fill in ${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT} with that of your Zilliz Cloud cluster.
• To get the endpoint, refer to On Zilliz Cloud Console or use the Describe Cluster V2 API to extract the values from the responses.

export CLUSTER_ENDPOINT=""

Parameters

Authorizationstringheaderrequired

The authentication token should be an API key with appropriate privileges or a pair of colon-joined username and password, like username:password.

Example Value: Bearer {{TOKEN}}

Request Bodyapplication/json

dbNamestring

The name of the target database.

collectionNamestringrequired

The name of an existing collection.

filterstringrequired

A scalar filtering condition to filter matching entities. You can set this parameter to an empty string to skip scalar filtering. To build a scalar filtering condition, refer to Reference on Scalar Filters.

partitionNamestring

The name of a partition in the current collection. If specified, the data is to be deleted from the specified partition.

OPTION 1

export TOKEN="db_admin:xxxxxxxxxxxxx"

curl --request POST \
--url "${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v2/vectordb/entities/delete" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "collectionName": "medium_articles",
    "filter": "id == 4321034832910"
}'

OPTION 2

export TOKEN="db_admin:xxxxxxxxxxxxx"

curl --request POST \
--url "${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v2/vectordb/entities/delete" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "collectionName": "medium_articles",
    "filter": "reading_time > 15"
}'

Responses200 - application/json

SUCCESS

codeinteger

Response code.

costinteger

Cost of this operation.

dataobject

Response payload which is an empty object.

FAILURE

Returns an error message.

codeinteger

Response code.

messagestring

Error message.

SUCCESS

{
    "code": 0,
    "cost": 0,
    "data": {}
}