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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.21
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-173060
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2022/17306/
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Das, Rathish ; Iacono, John ; Nekrich, Yakov

External-Memory Dictionaries with Worst-Case Update Cost

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Abstract

The B^ε-tree [Brodal and Fagerberg 2003] is a simple I/O-efficient external-memory-model data structure that supports updates orders of magnitude faster than B-tree with a query performance comparable to the B-tree: for any positive constant ε < 1 insertions and deletions take O(1/B^(1-ε) log_B N) time (rather than O(log_BN) time for the classic B-tree), queries take O(log_B N) time and range queries returning k items take O(log_B N + k/B) time. Although the B^ε-tree has an optimal update/query tradeoff, the runtimes are amortized. Another structure, the write-optimized skip list, introduced by Bender et al. [PODS 2017], has the same performance as the B^ε-tree but with runtimes that are randomized rather than amortized. In this paper, we present a variant of the B^ε-tree with deterministic worst-case running times that are identical to the original’s amortized running times.

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@InProceedings{das_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.21,
  author =	{Das, Rathish and Iacono, John and Nekrich, Yakov},
  title =	{{External-Memory Dictionaries with Worst-Case Update Cost}},
  booktitle =	{33rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2022)},
  pages =	{21:1--21:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-258-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{248},
  editor =	{Bae, Sang Won and Park, Heejin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/17306},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-173060},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.21},
  annote =	{Keywords: Data Structures, External Memory, Buffer Tree}
}

Keywords: Data Structures, External Memory, Buffer Tree
Collection: 33rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2022)
Issue Date: 2022
Date of publication: 14.12.2022

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