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B-TreeIndices

Author: Scott Morgan
Created: 2025-11-25
Edited: 2025-11-29
Id: 1.3.6.1.4.1.33097.1.1.4
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B-Trees have been the defacto standard for database indices for the 20th century and first 25 years of the 21st century. B-Trees are self-balancing tree data structure that maintains sorted data and allows searches, insertions, and deletions with a O(log n) time cost. The B-tree generalizes the BinarySearchTree#1.3.6.1.4.1.33097.1.0.1, allowing nodes to have more than two children.

Asymptotic Time Cost (aka. Time Complexity)

Operation Asymptotic Cost
insert O(log n)
delete O(log n)
find O(log n)
stream O(n)

Asymptotic Space Cost (aka. Space Complexity)

O(u) is the space cost of an ArrayList.

Associated Algorithms

BinarySearch#1.3.6.1.4.1.33097.0.0

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