What is the difference between Bitmap and Btree index?

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What is the difference between Bitmap and Btree index?..

Answer / kishore

b-tree indexes are used usuall when we have too many
distinct columns and for high cardinaties . and bitmap
indexex are used for low cardinaties usually when we have
repeated columns.

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What is the difference between Bitmap and Btree index?..

Answer / ranvir thakor

WE can use B-Tree index where data cardinality is high and
many DML operations are performed and have many distinct
values. while Bitmap will use when have low cardinality and
less distinct value like gender column(M/F) or value does
not update frequently.

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What is the difference between Bitmap and Btree index?..

Answer / sarvesh

bit map incdex is an index in which the data will be in the
form of bites,by this we can retrieve the data very fastly
btree index is an index which is default index as
normal indexes.

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