B-tree and UB-tree - ScholarpediaThe B-tree is a dynamic high performance data structure to organize and manage large datasets which are stored on pseudorandom access devices like disks, (Bayer and McCreight 1972). The UB-tree is a multidimensional generalization of the B-tree. Invented in 1969, B-trees are still the prevailing data structure for indexes in relational databases and many file systems (Comer 1979), (Weikum and Voss
