Abstract

The idea of relaxed balance is to uncouple the rebalancing in search trees from the updating in order to speed up request processing in main-memory databases during bursts of updates. This paper contains the first proof that amortized constant time rebalancing can be obtained in a relaxed binary search tree using only standard single and double rotations. 1 Introduction The idea of relaxed balance is to uncouple the rebalancing in search trees from the updating in order to speed up request processing in main-memory databases. The motivation is two-fold: If search and update requests for a search tree come in bursts (possibly from several external sources), the search tree may occasionally not be able to process the requests as fast as it might be desirable. For this reason, it would be convenient to be able to "turn off" rebalancing for a short period of time in order to speed up the request processing. However, when the burst is over, the tree should be rebalanced again, while search...

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