Interface

An interface is a

shared boundary across which two or more separate components exchange information"

There are many types of interfaces, for example:

1. APIs - Application Programming Interface. e.g. REST or SOAP

2. File - Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) or Extract, Load & Transform (ELT)

3. JDBC - Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is an application programming interface (API) for the programming language Java, which defines how a client may access a database

4. ODBC - Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a low-level, high-performance interface that is designed specifically for relational data stores

5. Mailbox - mailbox for integration

6. Streaming - streaming data