diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/debug/ldb/DropTable.java b/hadoop-ozone/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/debug/ldb/DropTable.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 90e5d7a11fec..000000000000
--- a/hadoop-ozone/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/debug/ldb/DropTable.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package org.apache.hadoop.ozone.debug.ldb;
-
-import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Arrays;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
-import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.utils.db.managed.ManagedRocksDB;
-import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.debug.RocksDBUtils;
-import org.rocksdb.ColumnFamilyDescriptor;
-import org.rocksdb.ColumnFamilyHandle;
-import picocli.CommandLine;
-
-/**
- * Drop a column Family/Table in db.
- */
-@CommandLine.Command(
-        name = "drop_column_family",
-        description = "drop column family in db."
-)
-public class DropTable implements Callable<Void> {
-
-  @CommandLine.Option(names = {"--column-family", "--column_family"},
-      description = "Table name")
-  private String tableName;
-
-  @CommandLine.ParentCommand
-  private RDBParser parent;
-
-  @Override
-  public Void call() throws Exception {
-    List<ColumnFamilyDescriptor> cfs =
-        RocksDBUtils.getColumnFamilyDescriptors(parent.getDbPath());
-    final List<ColumnFamilyHandle> columnFamilyHandleList =
-        new ArrayList<>();
-    try (ManagedRocksDB rocksDB = ManagedRocksDB.open(
-        parent.getDbPath(), cfs, columnFamilyHandleList)) {
-      byte[] nameBytes = tableName.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
-      ColumnFamilyHandle toBeDeletedCf = null;
-      for (ColumnFamilyHandle cf : columnFamilyHandleList) {
-        if (Arrays.equals(cf.getName(), nameBytes)) {
-          toBeDeletedCf = cf;
-          break;
-        }
-      }
-      if (toBeDeletedCf == null) {
-        System.err.println(tableName + " is not in a column family in DB "
-            + parent.getDbPath());
-      } else {
-        System.out.println(tableName + " will be deleted from DB "
-            + parent.getDbPath());
-        rocksDB.get().dropColumnFamily(toBeDeletedCf);
-      }
-    }
-    return null;
-  }
-}
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/debug/ldb/RDBParser.java b/hadoop-ozone/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/debug/ldb/RDBParser.java
index 8907b675060a..e2f1722ea01e 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/debug/ldb/RDBParser.java
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/debug/ldb/RDBParser.java
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
         name = "ldb",
         subcommands = {
             DBScanner.class,
-            DropTable.class,
             ListTables.class,
             ValueSchema.class,
             Checkpoint.class,