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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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What Is a Balance Tree?

A balance tree is a structure that can be re-balanced. It could have zero, it could have one, and that could be a right or a left,. dependon whether the value higher or lower. The problem was recognized pretty early on, and people thought about ways to to make the tree structure self managing, self balancing. So as you insert data to it, you know it always manages to check its own status and re balance things as necessary.

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