How do you balance a binary tree without using a self-balancing algorithm like the ones Red-Black Trees and AVL trees use?

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Denis.G · Accepted Answer

Splay tree is a good example . Kinda like recently used cache. Recently used elems are near the root (or root)

Maybe they were waiting for B/B++-tree. Since it's a self-balanced Tree (not binary though) which is used in DBMSs

Hafidz Jazuli Luthfi · Answer

The key is uniform distribution and random insertion. I need to ensure that field to be indexed in btree has high-cardinality and data not growth monotonically. For example: SKU (stock keeping unit) has high-cardinality and random growth, but timestamp only has high-cardinality.

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