Deleting keys of B-trees in parallel

  • Authors:
  • Heejin Park;Kunsoo Park;Yookun Cho

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Information and Communications, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Republic of Korea;School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea;School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The B-tree is a fundamental data structure that is used to access and update a large number of keys. In this paper, we present a parallel algorithm on the EREW PRAM that deletes keys in a B-tree. Our algorithm runs in O(B(logk+log"Bn)) time with k processors, where n is the number of keys in the B-tree, B is the minimum degree of the B-tree, and k is the number of unsorted keys to delete, and it improves upon the previous algorithm by a factor of B.