When you DELETE an object, all versions remain in the bucket and MinIO adds a delete marker, as shown below:

![delete](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minio/minio/master/docs/bucket/versioning/versioning_DELETE_versionEnabled.png)

MinIO's Object Lambda, enables application developers to process data retrieved from MinIO before returning it to an application. You can register a Lambda Function target on MinIO, once successfully registered it can be used to transform the data for application GET requests on demand.

Traditional retrieval of objects is always as whole entities, i.e GetObject for a 5 GiB object, will always return 5 GiB of data. S3 Select API allows us to retrieve a subset of data by using simple SQL expressions. By using Select API to retrieve only the data needed by the application, drastic performance improvements can be achieved.

You can use the Select API to query objects with following features:

To collect `xl.meta` from a specific object, for example placed at `ALIAS/bucket/path/to/file.txt` append `/xl.meta`, for instance `mc support inspect ALIAS/bucket/path/to/file.txt/xl.meta`. All files can be collected, so this can also be used to retrieve `part.*` files, etc.

Wildcards can be used, for example `mc support inspect ALIAS/bucket/path/**/xl.meta` will collect all `xl.meta` recursively. `mc support inspect ALIAS/bucket/path/to/file.txt/*/part.*` will collect parts for all versions...

  - LDAP/AD users and their respective service accounts
  - OpenID/OIDC service accounts

- On versioned buckets, FTP/SFTP only operates on latest objects, if you need to retrieve
  an older version you must use an `S3 API client` such as [`mc`](https://github.com/minio/mc).

- All features currently used by your buckets will work as is without any changes
  - SSE (Server Side Encryption)