B*Tree
From Oracle FAQ
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A B*Tree is a data structure used by Oracle for storing indexes. A B*Tree index consists of levels of branch blocks, each level containing pointers to the next lower level, with a set of leaf blocks at the lowest level which contains the data: indexed column values and rowids.
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