de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.database.connection
Interface DatabaseConnection<O extends DatabaseObject>

Type Parameters:

O - the type of DatabaseObject to be provided by the implementing class as element of the supplied database

All Superinterfaces:

Parameterizable

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractDatabaseConnection, EmptyDatabaseConnection, FileBasedDatabaseConnection, InputStreamDatabaseConnection, MultipleFileBasedDatabaseConnection

public interface DatabaseConnection<O extends DatabaseObject>
extends Parameterizable

DatabaseConnection is to provide a database.

A database connection is to manage the input and to provide a database where algorithms can run on. An implementation may either use a parser to parse a sequential file or piped input and provide a file based database or provide an intermediate connection to a database system.

Author:

Arthur Zimek

Method Summary

Database<O>

getDatabase(Normalization<O> normalization) Returns a Database according to parameter settings.

Method Detail

getDatabase

Database<O> getDatabase(Normalization<O> normalization)

Returns a Database according to parameter settings.

Parameters:

normalization - Normalization to perform a normalization if this action is supported. May remain null.

Returns:

a Database according to parameter settings