What are the applications of red-black trees?

What are the applications of red-black trees?

Red-black trees are used in various applications, including databases, memory management, and implementing associative arrays.

Can you explain how they are used in databases?

In databases, red-black trees help maintain sorted data and allow for efficient insertion, deletion, and lookup operations.

What advantages do red-black trees have over other tree structures?

Red-black trees provide guaranteed O(log n) time complexity for insertions, deletions, and lookups, making them efficient.

Are there any real-world examples of systems using red-black trees?

Yes, many programming languages' standard libraries, like C++'s STL and Java's TreeMap, use red-black trees for their implementations.