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

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractDatabaseConnection, ArrayAdapterDatabaseConnection, BundleDatabaseConnection, ConcatenateFilesDatabaseConnection, DBIDRangeDatabaseConnection, EmptyDatabaseConnection, ExternalIDJoinDatabaseConnection, FileBasedDatabaseConnection, GeneratorXMLDatabaseConnection, InputStreamDatabaseConnection, LabelJoinDatabaseConnection, MultipleObjectsBundleDatabaseConnection, PresortedBlindJoinDatabaseConnection, RandomDoubleVectorDatabaseConnection
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public interface DatabaseConnection
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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.

Since:

0.1

Author:

Arthur Zimek

- Method Summary
  
  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
  Modifier and Type Method Description
  
  MultipleObjectsBundle loadData()
  Returns the initial data for a database.

- Method Detail
  - loadData
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MultipleObjectsBundle loadData()
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    Returns the initial data for a database.
    
    Returns:
    
    a database object bundle