<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false"><li>Creating an index is common among developers, but understanding how the index works at a data structure level is crucial.</li><li>Different data structures in indexing excel at various operations such as range scans, exact-match lookups, full-text search, or geospatial queries.</li><li>The choice of index structure significantly impacts query planning, I/O patterns, and memory consumption.</li><li>This article delves into the internal data structures powering database indexes, explaining their workings, problem-solving capabilities, performance areas, and limitations.</li></ul>

Database Index Internals: Understanding the Data Structures

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