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Episode 485: Howard Chu on B+tree Data Structure in Depth

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Using a Bin Research Tree

The computer science version of a tree is upside down from what you would see in nature. It's called treogrithm just because of the logical way the data is arranged. You start with a central root point, and then it branches out to cover the entire span of the data range. And on average, it will take you one half of the number of elements in the list to find the item you want.

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