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B-Tree的主要缺点是遍历键的难度 按顺序。B+树保留了的快速随机访问属性 b -树，同时也允许快速顺序访问

** 参考:Data Structures Using C//作者:Aaro M Tenenbaum

http://books.google.co.in/books?id=X0Cd1Pr2W0gC&pg=PA456&lpg=PA456&dq=drawback+of+B-Tree+is+the+difficulty+of+Traversing+the+keys+sequentially&source=bl&ots=pGcPQSEJMS&sig=F9MY7zEXYAMVKl_Sg4W-0LTRor8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nD5AUbeeH4zwrQe12oCYAQ&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=drawback%20of%20B-Tree%20is%20the%20difficulty%20of%20Traversing%20the%20keys%20sequentially&f=false

B+树尤其适用于基于块的存储(例如:硬盘)。考虑到这一点，你会得到几个优势，例如(从我的脑海中):

high fanout / low depth: that means you have to get less blocks to get to the data. with data intermingled with the pointers, each read gets less pointers, so you need more seeks to get to the data simple and consistent block storage: an inner node has N pointers, nothing else, a leaf node has data, nothing else. that makes it easy to parse, debug and even reconstruct. high key density means the top nodes are almost certainly on cache, in many cases all inner nodes get quickly cached, so only the data access has to go to disk.

B+树相对于B树的主要优点是，它们允许您通过删除指向数据的指针来打包更多指向其他节点的指针，从而增加扇出并潜在地降低树的深度。

缺点是，当您可能在内部节点中找到匹配时，无法提前退出。但由于这两种数据结构都有巨大的扇出，绝大多数匹配都将在叶节点上，这使得B+树的平均效率更高。

In a B tree search keys and data are stored in internal or leaf nodes. But in a B+-tree data is stored only in leaf nodes. Full scan of a B+ tree is very easy because all data are found in leaf nodes. Full scan of a B tree requires a full traversal. In a B tree, data may be found in leaf nodes or internal nodes. Deletion of internal nodes is very complicated. In a B+ tree, data is only found in leaf nodes. Deletion of leaf nodes is easy. Insertion in B tree is more complicated than B+ tree. B+ trees store redundant search keys but B tree has no redundant value. In a B+ tree, leaf node data is ordered as a sequential linked list but in a B tree the leaf node cannot be stored using a linked list. Many database systems' implementations prefer the structural simplicity of a B+ tree.

B+树的一个可能的用途是它适用于各种情况 哪里的树长得太大，以至于它不适合可用 内存。因此，您通常期望执行多个I/O。 B+树确实经常被使用，即使它实际上适合 内存，然后你的缓存管理器可能会永久保存它。但 这是一个特殊的情况，而不是一般的情况，缓存策略是 与B+树的维护分开。

另外，在B+树中，叶子页以 一个链表(或双链表)，用于优化遍历 (用于范围搜索、排序等)。所以指针的数量是 所使用的特定算法的函数。

Adegoke A, Amit

我想你们忽略的一个关键点是数据和指针之间的区别，就像本节中解释的那样。

指针:指向其他节点的指针。

数据:—在数据库索引的上下文中，数据只是另一个指向其他地方的真实数据(行)的指针。

因此在B树的情况下，每个节点都有三个信息键，指向与键相关的数据的指针和指向子节点的指针。

在B+树中，内部节点保存指向子节点的键和指针，而叶节点保存指向相关数据的键和指针。这允许为给定大小的节点提供更多的键数。节点大小主要由块大小决定。

每个节点拥有更多键的好处已经在上面解释过了，这样可以节省我的输入工作量。