Drop a collection

This topic describes how to drop a collection and the data within.

from pymilvus import utility
utility.drop_collection("book")

await milvusClient.dropCollection({ collection_name: "book" });

err = milvusClient.DropCollection(
  context.Background(), // ctx
  "book",               // CollectionName
)
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal("fail to drop collection:", err.Error())
}

milvusClient.dropCollection(
  DropCollectionParam.newBuilder()
    .withCollectionName("book")
    .build()
);

var collection = Client.GetCollection("book");
await collection.DropAsync();

curl -X 'DELETE' \
  '${MILVUS_HOST}:${MILVUS_PORT}/v1/vector/collections/drop' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}' \
  -H 'accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "collection_name": "book"
  }'

{
    "code": 200,
    "data": {}
}

What’s next

• Learn more basic operations of Milvus:
  • Insert data into Milvus
  • Create a partition
  • Build an index for vectors
  • Conduct a vector search
  • Conduct a hybrid search