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In computer science, a red–black tree is a self-balancing binary search tree data structure noted for fast storage and retrieval of ordered information. The nodes in a red-black tree hold an extra "color" bit, often drawn as red and black, which help ensure that the tree is always approximately balanced.
A left-leaning red-black tree satisfies all the properties of a red-black tree: Every node is either red or black. A NIL node is considered black. A red node does not have a red child. Every path from a given node to any of its descendant NIL nodes goes through the same number of black nodes. The root is black (by convention).
WAVL trees, like red–black trees, use only a constant number of tree rotations, and the constant is even better than for red–black trees. [1] [2] WAVL trees were introduced by Haeupler, Sen & Tarjan (2015). The same authors also provided a common view of AVL trees, WAVL trees, and red–black trees as all being a type of rank-balanced tree. [2]
In this way, deletion is reduced to the problem of removing a node with 0 or 1 children. Unlike a binary search tree, in a splay tree after deletion, we splay the parent of the removed node to the top of the tree. Alternatively: The node to be deleted is first splayed, i.e. brought to the root of the tree and then deleted.
To turn a regular search tree into an order statistic tree, the nodes of the tree need to store one additional value, which is the size of the subtree rooted at that node (i.e., the number of nodes below it). All operations that modify the tree must adjust this information to preserve the invariant that size[x] = size[left[x]] + size[right[x]] + 1
Both AVL trees and red–black (RB) trees are self-balancing binary search trees and they are related mathematically. Indeed, every AVL tree can be colored red–black, [14] but there are RB trees which are not AVL balanced. For maintaining the AVL (or RB) tree's invariants, rotations play an important role.
In 2016, Blelloch et al. formally proposed the join-based algorithms, and formalized the join algorithm for four different balancing schemes: AVL trees, red–black trees, weight-balanced trees and treaps. In the same work they proved that Adams' algorithms on union, intersection and difference are work-optimal on all the four balancing schemes.
2–3–4 trees are B-trees of order 4; [1] like B-trees in general, they can search, insert and delete in O(log n) time.One property of a 2–3–4 tree is that all external nodes are at the same depth.