Advantages of BST over Hash Table Last Updated : 30 Jul, 2024 Summarize Comments Improve Suggest changes Share Like Article Like Report Hash Table supports following operations in O(1) time. 1) Search 2) Insert 3) Delete The time complexity of above operations in a self-balancing Binary Search Tree (BST) (like Red-Black Tree, AVL Tree, Splay Tree, etc) is O(Logn). So Hash Table seems to beating BST in all common operations. When should we prefer BST over Hash Tables, what are advantages. Following are some important points in favor of BSTs.We can get all keys in sorted order by just doing Inorder Traversal of BST. This is not a natural operation in Hash Tables and requires extra efforts.Doing order statistics, finding closest lower and greater elements, doing range queries are easy to do with BSTs. Like sorting, these operations are not a natural operation with Hash Tables.BSTs are easy to implement compared to hashing, we can easily implement our own customized BST. To implement Hashing, we generally rely on libraries provided by programming languages.With Self-Balancing BSTs, all operations are guaranteed to work in O(Logn) time. But with Hashing, O(1) is average time and some particular operations may be costly i.e, O(n ), especially when table resizing happens.Range searches can be done efficiently with BSTs, but hash tables can also support efficient range searches if implemented properly with techniques such as linear probing or chaining.BST might turn out to be memory efficient compared to Hash tables as in BST we have exactly n nodes for n keys. But the size of hash table can be larger for efficient operations.BST performs well on small data sets with a small number of elements, whereas Hash tables are not highly suitable for small data sets with a few elements.BST has recursive structure, which can be used to solve problems more elegantly and efficiently. Hash tables do not allow for recursion.Comparison table between Hash Tables and Binary Search Trees (BSTs):Comparison Criteria Hash Table BSTSearch Time ComplexityO(1)O(log n)Insertion Time ComplexityO(1)O(log n)Deletion Time ComplexityO(1)O(log n)Memory OverheadHighLowRange SearchesRequires special implementation EfficientRebalancingNot necessaryRequired for self-balancing BSTsOrderingNot inherently orderedInherently ordered with sorted traversalRecursionNot Inherently Recursive StructureRecursive StructureHandling CollisionsHash function and collision resolution strategiesNot applicableImplementationMostly relies on libraries provided by programming languages Can be easily implemented and customizedSuitability for Small Data Sets with Few ElementsLess suitable due to memory overheadMore suitable Comment More infoAdvertise with us Next Article Hash Table Data Structure K kartik Improve Article Tags : Hash Binary Search Tree DSA AVL-Tree Self-Balancing-BST +1 More Practice Tags : AVL-TreeBinary Search TreeHash Similar Reads Advantages of Trie Data Structure Introduction: Trie (also known as prefix tree) is a tree-based data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are sequences (usually strings). 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