Data Interface Database
The purpose of this package is to provide an interface to database implementations that provide:
- Database "documents" that have a JSON-based metadata portion and binary portions
- The ability to build these JSON-based metadata portions from user-specified class descriptions (with subclasses and superclasses)
- The ability to switch among various database implementations (such as Postgres, MongoDB, sqlite, a custom system, or new systems) without changing the API.
- The ability to enforce a schema on the metadata portion of the documents
- The ability to search document metadata fields without needing compiled object code for each document type
Later, we will add:
- The ability to provide version control with commits
This is a rebuild of a database that was built for the Neuroscience Data Interface and we are just getting it off the ground. For now, the only thing that works is:
did.test.test_did_document()
Options:
- DID-matlab is installed automatically with the NDI-matlab installer or with the vhlab_vhtools intaller. Installing either will install DID-matlab and set it up.
- You can also install manually with git.
- In a terminal (not in the Matlab command line), change to the directory where you want to install DID-matlab. Usually this is Documents/MATLAB from the home directory (e.g., on a Mac, at
/Users/username/Documents/Matlab). - Running the following command:
git clone http://github.com/VH-Lab/DID-matlab. - Make sure to add DID-matlab to your path on the Matlab command line:
addpath(genpath([PATHNAME_TO_DIDMATLAB])).
- In a terminal (not in the Matlab command line), change to the directory where you want to install DID-matlab. Usually this is Documents/MATLAB from the home directory (e.g., on a Mac, at
Test your installation by running did.test.test_did_document() on the command line.