Trouble deleting ChromaDB documents

distro_dave

I can't seem to delete documents from my Chroma vector database. I would appreciate any insight as to why this example does not work, and what modifications can/should be made to get it functioning correctly. import dotenv import os import chromadb from chromadb.config import Settings from chromadb.utils import embedding_functions dotenv.load_dotenv() client = chromadb.Client( Settings(chroma_db_impl="duckdb+parquet",...

Originally asked by wolfeweeks on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

This might help to anyone searching to delete a doc in ChromaDB Delete by ID Get the collection, you can follow any of the steps mentioned in the documentation like this: collection = client.get_collection(name="collection_name") collection.delete(ids="id_value") Delete by filtering metadata collection = client.get_collection(name="collection_emb") collection.delete(where={'metadata_field': {'<Operator>': '<Value>'}}) If you have metadata with the key URL and you want to delete all doc with URL equal to www.example.com collection.delete(where={'URL': {'$eq': 'www.example.com'}}) Filtering metadata supports the following operators: $eq - equal to (string, int, float) $ne - not equal to...

Full answer by vaibhav singh: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/78154265 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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