List of data structures
This is a list of well-known data structures. For a wider list of terms, see list of terms relating to algorithms and data structures. For a comparison of running times for a subset of this list see comparison of data structures.
Data types
Primitive types
- Boolean, true or false.
- Character
- Floating-point numbers, limited-precision approximations of real number values.
- Including single-precision and double-precision IEEE 754 floats, among others
- Fixed-point numbers
- Integer, integral or fixed-precision values
- Reference (also called a pointer or handle), a small value referring to another object's address in memory, possibly a much larger one
- Enumerated type, a small set of uniquely named values
- Symbol, a unique identifier
Composite types or non-primitive type
- Array, a sequence of elements of the same type stored contiguously in memory
- Record (also called a structure or struct), a collection of fields
- Product type (also called a tuple), a record in which the fields are not named
- String, a sequence of characters representing text
- Union, a datum which may be one of a set of types
- Tagged union (also called a variant, discriminated union or sum type), a union with a tag specifying which type the data is
Abstract data types
- Container
- List
- Tuple
- Associative array, Map
- Multimap
- Set
- Multiset (bag)
- Stack
- Queue (example Priority queue)
- Double-ended queue
- Graph (example Tree, Heap)
Some properties of abstract data types:
Structure | Ordered? | Uniqueness? |
---|---|---|
List | yes | no |
Associative array | no | keys (indexes) only |
Set | no | yes |
Stack | yes | no |
Multimap | no | no |
Multiset (bag) | no | no |
Queue | yes | no |
"Ordered" means that the elements of the data type have some kind of explicit order to them, where an element can be considered "before" or "after" another element. This order is usually determined by the order in which the elements are added to the structure, but the elements can be rearranged in some contexts, such as sorting a list. For a structure that isn't ordered, on the other hand, no assumptions can be made about the ordering of the elements (although a physical implementation of these data types will often apply some kind of arbitrary ordering). "Uniqueness" means that duplicate elements are not allowed. Depending on the implementation of the data type, attempting to add a duplicate element may either be ignored, overwrite the existing element, or raise an error. The detection for duplicates is based on some inbuilt (or alternatively, user-defined) rule for comparing elements.
Linear data structures
A data structure is said to be linear if its elements form a sequence.
Arrays
Lists
- Doubly linked list
- Array list
- Linked list also known as a Singly linked list
- Association list
- Self-organizing list
- Skip list
- Unrolled linked list
- VList
- Conc-tree list
- Xor linked list
- Zipper
- Doubly connected edge list also known as half-edge
- Difference list
- Free list
Trees
Trees are a subset of directed acyclic graphs.
Binary trees
- AA tree
- AVL tree
- Binary search tree
- Binary tree
- Cartesian tree
- Conc-tree list
- Left-child right-sibling binary tree
- Order statistic tree
- Pagoda
- Randomized binary search tree
- Red–black tree
- Rope
- Scapegoat tree
- Self-balancing binary search tree
- Splay tree
- T-tree
- Tango tree
- Threaded binary tree
- Top tree
- Treap
- WAVL tree
- Weight-balanced tree
- Zip tree
Heaps
Bit-slice trees
In these data structures each tree node compares a bit slice of key values.
Multi-way trees
Space-partitioning trees
These are data structures used for space partitioning or binary space partitioning.
- Segment tree
- Interval tree
- Range tree
- Bin
- K-d tree
- Implicit k-d tree
- Min/max k-d tree
- Relaxed k-d tree
- Adaptive k-d tree
- Quadtree
- Octree
- Linear octree
- Z-order
- UB-tree
- R-tree
- R+ tree
- R* tree
- Hilbert R-tree
- X-tree
- Metric tree
- Cover tree
- M-tree
- VP-tree
- BK-tree
- Bounding interval hierarchy
- Bounding volume hierarchy
- BSP tree
- Rapidly exploring random tree
Application-specific trees
Hash-based structures
Graphs
Many graph-based data structures are used in computer science and related fields:
See also
- List of algorithms
- Purely functional data structure
- Blockchain, a hash-based chained data structure that can persist state history over time
External links
- Tommy Benchmarks Comparison of several data structures.