Red-Black Trees

What is a Red-Black Tree?

A Red-Black Tree is a self-balancing binary search tree. It keeps the tree balanced using coloring rules so that searching, inserting, and deleting stay efficient.

Important Properties

• Each node is either red or black.
• The root is always black.
• No red node can have a red child.

Why Red-Black Trees Matter

Red-Black Trees are useful in computer science because they help keep operations fast, usually in O(log n) time.

Learn more here: Red-Black Tree on Wikipedia