design pattern to expire documents on cloudant

Question

So when a document is deleted, the metadata is actually preserved forever. For a hosted service like cloudant, where storage costs every month, I instead would like to compl

Answer 1

Deleted documents are kept for ever in couchdb. Even after compaction .Though the size of document is pretty small as it contains only three fields

{_id:234wer,_rev:123,deleted:true}

The reason for this is to make sure that all the replicated databases are consistent. If a document that is replicated on several databases is deleted from one location there is no way to tell it to other replicated stores.

There is _purge but as explained in the wiki it is only to be used in special cases.