de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.datasource
Interface DatabaseConnection

All Superinterfaces:

InspectionUtilFrequentlyScanned, Parameterizable

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractDatabaseConnection, EmptyDatabaseConnection, ExternalIDJoinDatabaseConnection, FileBasedDatabaseConnection, GeneratorXMLDatabaseConnection, InputStreamDatabaseConnection, LabelJoinDatabaseConnection, RandomDoubleVectorDatabaseConnection

public interface DatabaseConnection
extends Parameterizable

DatabaseConnection is used to load data into a database.

A database connection is to manage the input and for 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.

Method Summary

MultipleObjectsBundle

loadData() Returns the initial data for a database.

Method Detail

loadData

MultipleObjectsBundle loadData()

Returns the initial data for a database.

Returns:

a database object bundle