Package de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.parallel.processor

Processor API of ELKI, and some essential shared processors.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
Processor	Class to represent a processor factory.
Processor.Instance	Instance.

Class Summary

Class	Description
AbstractDoubleProcessor	Abstract base class for processors that output double values.
AbstractDoubleProcessor.Instance	Instance.
DoubleMinMaxProcessor	Sink collecting minimum and maximum values.
DoubleMinMaxProcessor.Instance	Instance for a particular sub-channel / part of the data set.
KDistanceProcessor	Compute the kNN distance for each object.
KDistanceProcessor.Instance	Instance for precomputing the kNN.
KNNProcessor<O>	Processor to compute the kNN of each object.
KNNProcessor.Instance<O>	Instance for precomputing the kNN.
WriteDataStoreProcessor<T>	Output channel to store data in a WritableDataStore.
WriteDoubleDataStoreProcessor	Write double values into a WritableDoubleDataStore.
WriteIntegerDataStoreProcessor	Write int values into a WritableIntegerDataStore.

Package de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.parallel.processor Description

Processor API of ELKI, and some essential shared processors. A processor in ELKI is a function, that can be applied in parallel to different objects in the database. It follows the factory design pattern, as it needs to be instantiated for every thread separately. While this bears some similarity to mappers as used in Map Reduce, this is not an implementation of a map-reduce framework. This is why there is no "reducer" in the ELKI framework. A key difference is that mappers may be combined into the same thread, and exchange values via the SharedVariable API. The other key difference is that ELKI is not (yet?) running in a distributed framework, therefore it is perfectly possible to have a mapper query the database, or write to an output storage. It may be necessary to apply locking in such cases! As we want to write to some storage at the end, the last processor usually will not have an "output", thus the name "map" is not a good match anymore.