UpdatableDatabase (ELKI: Environment for DeveLoping KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures)

All Superinterfaces:

Database

All Known Implementing Classes:

HashmapDatabase
```
public interface UpdatableDatabase
extends Database
```
Database API with updates. Static databases allow for certain optimizations that cannot be done in dynamic databases.

Since:

0.4.0

Author:

Erich Schubert

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`SingleObjectBundle`	`delete(DBIDRef id)`	Removes and returns the specified objects with the given ids from the database.
`ObjectBundle`	`delete(DBIDs ids)`	Removes and returns the specified objects with the given ids from the database.
`DBIDs`	`insert(ObjectBundle objpackages)`	Inserts the given object(s) and their associations into the database.

Methods inherited from interface elki.database.Database
accumulateDataStoreEvents, addDataStoreListener, flushDataStoreEvents, getBundle, getRelation, getRelations, initialize, removeDataStoreListener

- Method Detail
  - insert
```
DBIDs insert(ObjectBundle objpackages)
```
    Inserts the given object(s) and their associations into the database.
    
    Parameters:
    
    objpackages - the objects to be inserted
    
    Returns:
    
    the IDs assigned to the inserted objects
  - delete
```
ObjectBundle delete(DBIDs ids)
```
    Removes and returns the specified objects with the given ids from the database.
    
    Parameters:
    
    ids - the ids of the object to be removed from the database
    
    Returns:
    
    the objects that have been removed
  - delete
```
SingleObjectBundle delete(DBIDRef id)
```
    Removes and returns the specified objects with the given ids from the database.
    
    Parameters:
    
    id - the id of the object to be removed from the database
    
    Returns:
    
    the object that have been removed