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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.node.interfaces;

import io.sirix.node.SirixDeweyID;

/**
 * Combines some basic commonalities for different DeweyID representations (as for instance the
 * {@link SirixDeweyID} and the DeweyIDBuffer).
 * 
 * @author Martin Hiller
 * 
 */
public interface SimpleDeweyID {
  /**
   * Get the division values.
   * 
   * @return an array of divisions representing the DeweyID
   */
  public int[] getDivisionValues();

  /**
   * Get the number of divisions.
   * 
   * @return the number of used divisions (is less or equal to the length of the divisions array)
   */
  public int getNumberOfDivisions();

  /**
   * Determines if it is an attribute.
   * 
   * @return {@code true}, iff this DeweyID represents an attribute node, {@code false} otherwise
   */
  public boolean isAttribute();
}