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Designing Data-Intensive Applications – To B-Tree or not to B-Tree

Coding Blocks

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Is There a Root Page?

The primary the way we canto store this is basic. We have a root page, which has all the key searches are going to start there. It's just sort of split up into segments. So if you're in one to a million, it might have a segment that's from one to ten thousand and it's going to point some space on disk over here. And so you can narrow down, and then you can cut a drill into there, load up the next page and do the same thing,. until finally you get down to the very bottom, and you actually find your data.

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