Stochastically Balancing Trees for File and Database Systems

  • Authors:
  • Aziz Barbar;Anis Ismail

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, American University of Science & Technology, Beirut, Lebanon;Department of Communication and Computer Network Engineering, University Institute of Technology, Lebanese University, Saida, Lebanon

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Green Computing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

With the constant improvement in data storage technologies, a new generation of indexing mechanisms is to be created to exploit the improvements in disk access speeds that were previously impractical. The self-balancing tree B-Tree, has long been the indexing structure of choice for reducing the amount of disk access at the expense of size of data block to be read or written. A new technique based on a dynamically growing multilevel list structure, which is stochastically balanced rather than self balanced, is discussed and compared to the B-Tree. An analogy between the technique and the structures is established to better compare the computational complexities.