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SirixDB is a hybrid on-disk and in-memory document oriented, versioned database system. It has a lightweight buffer manager, stores everything in a huge persistent and durable tree and allows efficient reconstruction of every revision. Furthermore, SirixDB implements change tracking, diffing and supports time travel queries.

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package io.sirix.io.bytepipe;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;

/**
 * Interface for the decorator, representing any byte representation to be serialized or to
 * serialize.
 *
 * @author Sebastian Graf, University of Konstanz
 *
 */
public interface ByteHandler {

  /**
   * Method to serialize any byte-chunk.
   *
   * @param toSerialize byte to be serialized
   * @return result of the serialization
   */
  OutputStream serialize(OutputStream toSerialize);

  /**
   * Method to deserialize any byte-chunk.
   *
   * @param toDeserialize to deserialize
   * @return result of the deserialization
   */
  InputStream deserialize(InputStream toDeserialize);

  /**
   * Method to retrieve a new instance.
   *
   * @return new instance
   */
  ByteHandler getInstance();
}