B-Trees
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May 1, 2024
Updated May 9, 2025
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B-Trees are a fundamental data structure in computer science, renowned for their efficiency in managing large datasets. At a high level, a B-Tree is a self-balancing tree data structure that maintains sorted data and allows for searches, sequential access, insertions, and deletions in logarithmic time. This means that even as the amount of data grows significantly, the time it takes to find, add, or remove an item increases very slowly. Unlike binary search trees, which can only have two children per node, B-Trees can have many children, making them particularly well-suited for storage systems that read and write large blocks of data, such as databases and file systems.
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