A distributed data-balanced dictionary based on the B-link tree

Abstract

Many concurrent dictionary data structures have been proposed, but usually in the context of shared memory multiprocessors. The paper presents an algorithm for a concurrent distributed B-tree that can be implemented on message passing parallel computers. This distributed B-tree (the dB-tree) replicates the interior nodes in order to improve parallelism and reduce message passing. It is shown how the dB-tree algorithm can be used to build an efficient, highly parallel, data-balanced distributed dictionary, the dE-tree.<>