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narag on Oct 6, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Modern B-Tree Techniques (2011)

So the question is whether you're willing to trade that away for faster insertion and lookup.

I wouldn't characterize the decision as a trade off. They're different tools for different situations.

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