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  1. Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

    Donghui Zhang & Kenneth Paul Baclawski

  2. University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

    Vassilis J. Tsotras

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  1. Donghui Zhang
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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Zhang, D., Baclawski, K.P., J. Tsotras, V. (2009). B+-Tree. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_739

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