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Efficient data structure for fast random access, search, insertion and deletion

Asked 2009-05-20T21:28:49.017
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I'm looking for a data structure (or structures) that would allow me keep me an ordered list of integers, no duplicates, with indexes and values in the same range.

I need four main operations to be efficient, in rough order of importance:

  1. taking the value from a given index
  2. finding the index of a given value
  3. inserting a value at a given index
  4. deleting a value at a given index

Using an array I have 1 at O(1), but 2 is O(N) and insertion and deletions are expensive (O(N) as well, I believe).

A Linked List has O(1) insertion and deletion (once you have the node), but 1 and 2 are O(N) thus negating the gains.

I tried keeping two arrays a[index]=value and b[value]=index, which turn 1 and 2 into O(1) but turn 3 and 4 into even more costly operations.

Is there a data structure better suited for this?

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How to achieve 2 with RB-trees? We can make them count their children with every insert/delete operations. This doesn't make these operationis last significantly longer. Then getting down the tree to find the i-th element is possible in log n time. But I see no implementation of this method in java nor stl.

answered 2010-04-28T06:50:54.117

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