In PODS'91, Nurmi and Soisalon-Soininen presented a new type of binary search tree for databases, which they call a chromatic tree. The aim is to improve runtime performance ...
AVL trees with relaxed balance were introduced with the aim of improving runtime performance by allowing a greater degree of concurrency. This is obtained by uncoupling updating f...
Many database systems that use a B+ tree as the underlying data structure do not do rebalancing on deletion. This means that a bad sequence of deletions can create a very unbalance...