JavaScript SDK
await client.raw.deleteDatabases([{ name: 'My company' }]);client.raw.databases.delete(["db1", "db2"])
List<String> createDatabasesList =
List.of(StringValue.of("dbName").getValue());
List<String> deleteItemsResults =
client.raw().databases().delete(createDatabasesList);
//Allows to recursively
client.raw().databases().delete(createDatabasesList, true);
curl --request POST \
--url https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/raw/dbs/delete \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"items": [
{
"name": "<string>"
}
],
"recursive": false
}
'<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/raw/dbs/delete",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'items' => [
[
'name' => '<string>'
]
],
'recursive' => false
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/raw/dbs/delete"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"name\": \"<string>\"\n }\n ],\n \"recursive\": false\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/raw/dbs/delete")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"name\": \"<string>\"\n }\n ],\n \"recursive\": false\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{}Delete databases
Required capabilities:
rawAcl:WRITE
It deletes a database, but fails if the database is not empty and recursive is set to false (default).
POST
/
raw
/
dbs
/
delete
JavaScript SDK
await client.raw.deleteDatabases([{ name: 'My company' }]);client.raw.databases.delete(["db1", "db2"])
List<String> createDatabasesList =
List.of(StringValue.of("dbName").getValue());
List<String> deleteItemsResults =
client.raw().databases().delete(createDatabasesList);
//Allows to recursively
client.raw().databases().delete(createDatabasesList, true);
curl --request POST \
--url https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/raw/dbs/delete \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"items": [
{
"name": "<string>"
}
],
"recursive": false
}
'<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/raw/dbs/delete",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'items' => [
[
'name' => '<string>'
]
],
'recursive' => false
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/raw/dbs/delete"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"name\": \"<string>\"\n }\n ],\n \"recursive\": false\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/raw/dbs/delete")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"name\": \"<string>\"\n }\n ],\n \"recursive\": false\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{}Authorizations
oidc-tokenoauth2-client-credentialsoauth2-open-industrial-dataoauth2-auth-code
Access token issued by the CDF project's configured identity provider. Access token must be an OpenID Connect token, and the project must be configured to accept OpenID Connect tokens. Use a header key of 'Authorization' with a value of 'Bearer $accesstoken'. The token can be obtained through any flow supported by the identity provider.
Body
application/json
List of names of the databases to be deleted.
Response
200 - application/json
Empty response.
The response is of type object.
Last modified on August 21, 2026
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