1. B-Tree
Presenter: Jun Tao

2. Overview Introduction Definition Searching Creating an empty B-tree
Inserting a key to B-tree
Deleting a key from B-tree

3. Intruduction Balanced search tree Working on secondary storage devices
Internal nodes have a variable number of child nodes
Lower heights than Red-black trees
Less disk I/O operations

4. Definition Properties Every node x has the following fields
n[x]: number of keys
n[x] keys in non-decreasing order
n[x]+1 pointers to its children
leaf[x]
Keyi[x] separate the ranges of keys stored in each subtree
All leaves have the same depth
Every node other than the root has at least t-1 keys
Every node contains at most 2t-1 keys

5. Definition The height of a B-tree Worst-case height Proof
h ≤ logt(n+1)/2
Proof

6. Searching Similar to search a binary tree Input Return value
Multiway branch decision instead of two-way
Input
A pointer to the root
A key k to be search
Return value
A node y
An index I
keyi[y]=k

7. Searching
B-TREE-SEARCH(x, k) 1 i ← 1 2 while i ≤ n[x] and k > keyi[x] 3 do i ← i if i ≤ n[x] and k = keyi[x] 5 then return (x, i) 6 if leaf [x] 7 then return NIL 8 else DISK-READ(ci[x]) 9 return B-TREE-SEARCH(ci[x], k)

8. Creating an empty B-tree
B-TREE-CREATE(T) 1 x ← ALLOCATE-NODE() 2 leaf[x] ← TRUE 3 n[x] ← 0 4 DISK-WRITE(x) 5 root[T] ← x

9. Inserting a key to a B-tree
More complicated than inserting a key to a binary tree
Full nodes need to be splitted
Might have to back up along the path
Splitting a node in a B-tree
B-TREE-SPLIT-CHILD()
Input
A nonfull internal node x
An index i
A node y ( y=ci[x] is a full child of x)

10. Inserting a key to a B-tree
Splitting a node in a B-tree
t = 4

11. Inserting a key to a B-tree
B-TREE-SPLIT-CHILD(x, i, y) 1 z ← ALLOCATE-NODE() 2 leaf[z] ← leaf[y] 3 n[z] ← t for j ← 1 to t do keyj[z] ← keyj+t[y] 6 if not leaf [y] 7 then for j ← 1 to t 8 do cj[z] ← cj+t[y] 9 n[y] ← t for j ← n[x] + 1 downto i do cj+1[x] ← cj [x] 12 ci+1[x] ← z 13 for j ← n[x] downto i 14 do keyj+1[x] ← keyj[x] 15 keyi[x] ← keyt[y] 16 n[x] ← n[x] DISK-WRITE(y) 18 DISK-WRITE(z) 19 DISK-WRITE(x)

12. Inserting a key to a B-tree
B-TREE-INSERT(T, k)
1 r ← root[T]
2 if n[r] = 2t - 1
3 then s ← ALLOCATE-NODE()
4 root[T] ← s
5 leaf[s] ← FALSE
6 n[s] ← 0
7 c1[s] ← r
8 B-TREE-SPLIT-CHILD(s, 1, r)
9 B-TREE-INSERT-NONFULL(s, k)
10 else B-TREE-INSERT-NONFULL(r, k)

13. Inserting a key to a B-tree
B-TREE-INSERT-NONFULL(x, k) 1 i ← n[x] 2 if leaf[x] 3 then while i ≥ 1 and k < keyi[x] 4 do keyi+1[x] ← keyi[x] 5 i ← i keyi+1[x] ← k 7 n[x] ← n[x] DISK-WRITE(x) 9 else while i ≥ 1 and k < keyi[x] 10 do i ← i i ← i DISK-READ(ci[x]) 13 if n[ci[x]] = 2t then B-TREE-SPLIT-CHILD(x, i, ci[x]) 15 if k> keyi[x] 16 then i ← i B-TREE-INSERT-NONFULL(ci[x], k)

14. Inserting a key to a B-tree

15. Inserting a key to a B-tree

16. Deleting a key from a B-tree
Deletion from an internal node require that the node’s children to be rearranged
A node can’t get too small during deletion
Might have to back up along the path
An alternative approach: move a key into a child node, if necessary, before recursion descends to that child

17. Deleting a key from a B-tree
Case 1
If the key k is in node x and x is a leaf

18. Deleting a key from a B-tree
Case 2 (key k is in internal node x):
a. If the child y that precedes k in node x has at least t keys, then find the predecessor k’ of k in the subtree rooted at y. Recursively delete k’, and replace k by k’ in x.

19. Deleting a key from a B-tree
Case 2b:
Symmetrically, if the child z that follows k in node x has at least t keys, then find the successor k’ of k in the subtree rooted at z. Recursively delete k’, and replace k by k’ in x.

20. Deleting a key from a B-tree
Case 2c
Otherwise, if both y and z have only t - 1 keys, merge k and all of z into y, so that x loses both k and the pointer to z, and y now contains 2t - 1 keys. Then, free z and recursively delete k from y

21. Deleting a key from a B-tree
Case 3
If the key k is not present in internal node x, determine the root ci[x] of the appropriate subtree that must contain k, if k is in the tree at all. If ci[x] has only t - 1 keys, execute step 3a or 3b as necessary to guarantee that we descend to a node containing at least t keys. Then, finish by recursing on the appropriate child of x

22. Deleting a key from a B-tree
Case 3a
If ci[x] has only t - 1 keys but has an immediate sibling with at least t keys, give ci[x] an extra key by moving a key from x down into ci[x], moving a key from ci[x]'s immediate left or right sibling up into x, and moving the appropriate child pointer from the sibling into ci[x].

23. Deleting a key from a B-tree
Case 3b:
If ci[x] and both of ci[x]'s immediate siblings have t - 1 keys, merge ci[x] with one sibling, which involves moving a key from x down into the new merged node to become the median key for that node