Deleting Individual Objects

The Object Browser can delete individual objects from the ScaleOut service. Right-click on any object in the object pane and select Delete from the context menu.

Multiple objects can be deleted simultaneously in the browser’s right pane. Click on a cache name folder in the tree to display the list of objects, select the objects to be deleted (using either a control-click or shift-click), and then right click on the selected objects to select the Delete command from the context menu. If every object needs to be deleted from an application/named cache, it is frequently faster for the server to remove those objects via a clear command.

If your application has set up dependencies between objects, note that deleting an object through the browser will also cause that object’s dependents to be expired and then deleted unless an expiration event handler in a client application prevents this.

Delete operations cannot be undone. Also, expiration events for the deleted objects will not be fired in ScaleOut’s client APIs.