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What is a Red-Black Tree?

Explore the fundamentals of Red-Black Trees, a self-balancing binary search tree with colored nodes that maintain balanced operations. Understand their properties, how insertion and deletion work, and compare them to AVL Trees to choose the appropriate structure for different coding scenarios.

Introduction #

Red-Black Trees are another type of self-balancing Binary Search Tree, but with some additions: the nodes in Red-Black Trees are colored either red or black. Colored nodes help with re-balancing the tree after insertions or deletions. We will go through the insertion and deletion functions of Red-Black trees just like we did with AVL Trees previously.

Properties of Red-Black Trees

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