diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 29666a72..4a6a13d0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -165,20 +165,6 @@ NEARBY searches a collection for objects that intersect a specified radius.
 <BR CLEAR="ALL">
 
 ### Search options
-**SPARSE** - This option will distribute the results of a search evenly across the requested area.  
-This is very helpful for example; when you have many (perhaps millions) of objects and do not want them all clustered together on a map. Sparse will limit the number of objects returned and provide them evenly distributed so that your map looks clean.<br><br>
-You can choose a value between 1 and 8. The value 1 will result in no more than 4 items. The value 8 will result in no more than 65536. *1=4, 2=16, 3=64, 4=256, 5=1024, 6=4098, 7=16384, 8=65536.*<br><br>
-<table>
-<td>No Sparsing<img src="/.github/images/sparse-none.png" width="100" height="100" border="0" alt="Search Within"></td>
-<td>Sparse 1<img src="/.github/images/sparse-1.png" width="100" height="100" border="0" alt="Search Within"></td>
-<td>Sparse 2<img src="/.github/images/sparse-2.png" width="100" height="100" border="0" alt="Search Within"></td>
-<td>Sparse 3<img src="/.github/images/sparse-3.png" width="100" height="100" border="0" alt="Search Within"></td>
-<td>Sparse 4<img src="/.github/images/sparse-4.png" width="100" height="100" border="0" alt="Search Within"></td>
-<td>Sparse 5<img src="/.github/images/sparse-5.png" width="100" height="100" border="0" alt="Search Within"></td>
-</table>
-
-*Please note that the higher the sparse value, the slower the performance. Also, LIMIT and CURSOR are not available when using SPARSE.* 
-
 **WHERE** - This option allows for filtering out results based on [field](#fields) values. For example<br>```nearby fleet where speed 70 +inf point 33.462 -112.268 6000``` will return only the objects in the 'fleet' collection that are within the 6 km radius **and** have a field named `speed` that is greater than `70`. <br><br>Multiple WHEREs are concatenated as **and** clauses. ```WHERE speed 70 +inf WHERE age -inf 24``` would be interpreted as *speed is over 70 <b>and</b> age is less than 24.*<br><br>The default value for a field is always `0`. Thus if you do a WHERE on the field `speed` and an object does not have that field set, the server will pretend that the object does and that the value is Zero.
 
 **MATCH** - MATCH is similar to WHERE except that it works on the object id instead of fields.<br>```nearby fleet match truck* point 33.462 -112.268 6000``` will return only the objects in the 'fleet' collection that are within the 6 km radius **and** have an object id that starts with `truck`. There can be multiple MATCH options in a single search. The MATCH value is a simple [glob pattern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming)).
diff --git a/core/commands.json b/core/commands.json
index 26c9ed69..aa1c8d12 100644
--- a/core/commands.json
+++ b/core/commands.json
@@ -559,12 +559,6 @@
         "type": "integer",
         "optional": true
       },
-      {
-        "command": "SPARSE",
-        "name": "spread",
-        "type": "integer",
-        "optional": true
-      },
       {
         "command": "MATCH",
         "name": "pattern",
@@ -725,12 +719,6 @@
         "type": "integer",
         "optional": true
       },
-      {
-        "command": "SPARSE",
-        "name": "spread",
-        "type": "integer",
-        "optional": true
-      },
       {
         "command": "MATCH",
         "name": "pattern",
@@ -971,12 +959,6 @@
         "type": "integer",
         "optional": true
       },
-      {
-        "command": "SPARSE",
-        "name": "spread",
-        "type": "integer",
-        "optional": true
-      },
       {
         "command": "MATCH",
         "name": "pattern",
diff --git a/core/commands_gen.go b/core/commands_gen.go
index 4e40941a..02b3cf50 100644
--- a/core/commands_gen.go
+++ b/core/commands_gen.go
@@ -725,12 +725,6 @@ var commandsJSON = `{
         "type": "integer",
         "optional": true
       },
-      {
-        "command": "SPARSE",
-        "name": "spread",
-        "type": "integer",
-        "optional": true
-      },
       {
         "command": "MATCH",
         "name": "pattern",
@@ -891,12 +885,6 @@ var commandsJSON = `{
         "type": "integer",
         "optional": true
       },
-      {
-        "command": "SPARSE",
-        "name": "spread",
-        "type": "integer",
-        "optional": true
-      },
       {
         "command": "MATCH",
         "name": "pattern",
@@ -1137,12 +1125,6 @@ var commandsJSON = `{
         "type": "integer",
         "optional": true
       },
-      {
-        "command": "SPARSE",
-        "name": "spread",
-        "type": "integer",
-        "optional": true
-      },
       {
         "command": "MATCH",
         "name": "pattern",