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Nov 2021
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Episode 485: Howard Chu on B+tree Data S...

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Howard Chu, CTO of Symas Corp and chief architect of the OpenLDAP project, discusses the key features of B+Tree Data Structures which make it the default selection for efficient and predictable storage of sorted data.

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