(data structure)
Definition: A variant of a trie in which leaf nodes are buckets which hold up to k strings. Usually implies fixed sized buckets.
Generalization (I am a kind of ...)
trie.
Specialization (... is a kind of me.)
elastic-bucket trie.
Note: Combining terminal strings can greatly shorten branches. For instance, "extraordinarily", "extraordinariness", and "extraordinary" can be stored in one bucket at the end of a short branch distinguishing them from extran... and extrap... rather than a long branch for the common substring ...ordinar...
The name comes from reTRIEval and is pronounced, "tree." See the historical note at trie.
Author: PEB
Edward H. Sussenguth, Jr., Use of Tree Structures for Processing Files, CACM, 6(5):272-279, May 1963.
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Entry modified 1 August 2008.
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Paul E. Black, "bucket trie", in
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 1 August 2008. (accessed TODAY)
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