The UB-tree, also known as the Universal B-Tree,[1] as proposed by Rudolf Bayer and Volker Markl is a balanced tree for storing and efficiently retrieving multidimensional data. Like a B+ tree, information is stored only in the leaves. Records are stored according to Z-order, also called Morton order. Z-order is calculated by bitwise interlacing of the keys. Insertion, deletion, and point query ar
