Red-Black Trees

Red-Black trees are balanced binary search trees that guarantee logarithmic time complexity for basic operations like search, insert, and delete. They are self-balancing trees that maintain balance through a set of rules and operations.

Characteristics of Red-Black Trees

Red-Black trees have the following characteristics:

1. Node Colors: Each node in the tree is either red or black
2. Root Color: The root node is always black
3. Leaf Nodes: The leaf nodes (null nodes) are considered black
4. Red Node Constraints: No two adjacent nodes can be red. In other words, a red node cannot have a red parent or red children
5. Black Node Constraints: For any given node, all paths from that node to its descendant leaf nodes must contain the same number of black nodes

Balancing Operations

Red-Black trees use a set of balancing operations to maintain their properties. These operations include:

• Rotations: Left rotations and right rotations are performed to maintain balance when necessary
• Recoloring: Changing the colors of nodes within the tree to restore balance

Red-Black trees are commonly used in various applications, such as in database indexing, where the tree needs to be efficiently balanced and allow quick access to data.

Let's take a look at an example of a Red-Black tree:

1          20
2        /    \
3       10      40
4      /  \     /  \
5     5   15   30   50

In this example, the Red-Black tree is balanced, and all the red-black tree properties are satisfied.

To implement a Red-Black tree, we can define a class that represents a node in the tree and another class that represents the Red-Black tree itself. Here's an example implementation in Java:

1class Node<E> {
2    E data;
3    Node<E> left;
4    Node<E> right;
5    Node<E> parent;
6    int color;
7
8    public Node(E data) {
9        this.data = data;
10        left = right = parent = null;
11        color = 1;
12    }
13}
14
15class RedBlackTree<E extends Comparable<E>> {
16    Node<E> root;
17
18    // Red-Black Tree methods and functionality
19}

In the implementation above, the Node class represents a node in the Red-Black tree, and the RedBlackTree class represents the tree itself. The Node class stores the data, references to the left and right child nodes, the parent node, and the color of the node.

To maintain balance, the RedBlackTree class performs rotations and recoloring operations when necessary during node insertion and deletion. These operations ensure that the Red-Black tree remains balanced and efficient for searching, insertion, and deletion operations.

Now you have a basic understanding of Red-Black trees and their characteristics!

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public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        // Replace with your Java logic here

        RedBlackTree<Integer> tree = new RedBlackTree<>();

        tree.insert(10);

        tree.insert(20);

        tree.insert(30);

        tree.insert(40);

        tree.insert(50);

        tree.insert(60);

        tree.insert(70);

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        System.out.println("Red-Black Tree:");

        tree.printTree();

    }

}

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class RedBlackTree<E extends Comparable<E>> {

    // Red-Black Tree implementation

    // Replace with the Red-Black Tree implementation relevant to the content

}