
Designing Data-Intensive Applications – To B-Tree or not to B-Tree
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The Branching Factor Is Going Wide
Branching factor deals with how wide a page can go, like how many references it can have. And thena, obviously, the the wider pages can go, the less deep of the whole tree writ which is you hit more cot up horizontally. So if you can cram a bunch of ranges into a single a node, riht, if you can cramp a bunch of range there, then when it goes down to the next node, you want to try and cram a bunch arranges there too. In that way, you don't have to go down two or three more nodes deep.
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