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Ubiquitous B-Tree
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B-trees have become, de facto, a standard for file organization.File indexes of users, dedicated database systems, and general-purpose access methods have all been proposed and nnplemented using B-trees This paper reviews B-trees and shows why they have been so successful It discusses the major variations of the B-tree, especially the B+-tree, contrasting the relatwe merits and costs of each implementatmn.It illustrates a general purpose access method whmh uses a B-tree.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Comer, D.
- Venue
- ACM Computing Surveys
- Published
- 1979-06
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 121-137
- ISSN
- 0360-0300 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7341
- OpenAlex
- W2161694911
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- 1,859
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 17.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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