B-tree
A B-tree of is a balanced (http://planetmath.org/BalancedTree) search tree inwhich
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every node has at most children,
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every node, other than a root or leaf, has at least children,
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the root has at least 2 children if it is not a leaf,
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all leaf nodes appear on the same level
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a nonleaf node with children has keys.
If the tree has nodes its height is .