What are Red-Black Trees?

A Red-Black Tree is a self-balancing binary search tree with O(log n) time complexity for insertion, deletion, and search operations.

Key Properties

• Color Property: Nodes are colored either red or black.
• Bonus Root Property: The root of the tree is always black.
• Red Child Property: Red nodes cannot have red children (no two reds in a row).
• Black Height Property: All paths from a node to its descendant leaves contain the same number of black nodes.

Example of a Red-Black Tree:

To learn more, visit Wikipedia's Red-Black Tree Article .