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What other types of indexes do you know besides B-tree?
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In addition to B-trees, there are other types of indexes used in databases and Java applications:
- Hash indexes — provide quick access by exact key match but do not support range queries.
- Bitmap indexes — effective for columns with low cardinality (e.g., gender, status).
- R-tree — used for spatial data, such as geographic coordinates.
- GiST (Generalized Search Tree) — a generalized structure for various data types.
- Full-text indexes — for fast text search.
In Java, data structures from collections or specialized libraries can be used to implement indexes, such as HashMap (hash index), TreeMap (red-black tree, similar to B-tree).