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andrevdm edited this page Sep 13, 2010
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“A T-tree is a balanced index tree data structure optimized for cases where both the index and the actual data are fully kept in memory, just as a B-tree is an index structure optimized for storage on block oriented external storage devices like hard disks. T-trees seek to gain the performance benefits of in-memory tree structures such as AVL trees while avoiding the large storage space overhead which is common to them.” (from wikipedia)
See: Tobin J. Lehman and Michael J. Carey, A Study of Index Structures for Main Memory Database Management Systems. VLDB 1986 for a comprehensive discussion of T-Trees