2-3 Trees

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 Some properties:

  • Multiway/M-way search tree
  • Degree : 3 (maximum no. of children)
  • All leaf at same level
  • Every node must have at least ceil(n/2 here 3/2) children
  • Also call B-Tree of degree 3
  • Can't have duplicate element

Representation:

  • l contain all the element smaller than k1
  • m contain all the element b/w k1 and k2
  • n contain all the element greater than n
  • k1 < k2 for every node

Applications:

  • Used as example during study B-Tree and B+ Tree
  • Used internally in DBMS    

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