B+Tree vs. B*Tree

  • From: Daniel Hanks <hanksdc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:08:42 -0700 (MST)

This may be a little off-topic, but, what are the differences between B+tree 
indexes, and B*tree indexes? At school I had to write a program to perform 
insert and update on a B+tree index, so I'm familiar with that type of index. 
Searching for B*tree on Google is less than effective as Google strips out the 
* character.

Any docs you could point me to would be helpful. I have the Silberschatz book 
mentioned previously today, which covers B-tree, and B+tree indexes, but not 
b*tree indexes.

Thanks,

-- Dan
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