由于终端节点形成了一个链表，B+树更容易进行全面扫描，而且性能更高，可以查看树索引的每一块数据。要使用B-Tree进行完整扫描，您需要进行完整的树遍历以查找所有数据。

另一方面，当您执行seek(按键查找特定数据段)时，B-Trees可以更快，特别是当树驻留在RAM或其他非块存储中时。由于可以提升树中常用的节点，因此获取数据所需的比较较少。

In a B tree search keys and data are stored in internal or leaf nodes. But in a B+-tree data is stored only in leaf nodes. Full scan of a B+ tree is very easy because all data are found in leaf nodes. Full scan of a B tree requires a full traversal. In a B tree, data may be found in leaf nodes or internal nodes. Deletion of internal nodes is very complicated. In a B+ tree, data is only found in leaf nodes. Deletion of leaf nodes is easy. Insertion in B tree is more complicated than B+ tree. B+ trees store redundant search keys but B tree has no redundant value. In a B+ tree, leaf node data is ordered as a sequential linked list but in a B tree the leaf node cannot be stored using a linked list. Many database systems' implementations prefer the structural simplicity of a B+ tree.

在B+树中，由于只有指针存储在内部节点中，因此它们的大小明显小于B树的内部节点(存储数据+键)。 因此，B+树的索引可以在一次磁盘读取中从外部存储中提取，处理后找到目标的位置。如果它是一个B树，那么每个决策过程都需要读取磁盘。希望我把我的观点讲清楚了!：）

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B-Tree的主要缺点是遍历键的难度 按顺序。B+树保留了的快速随机访问属性 b -树，同时也允许快速顺序访问

** 参考:Data Structures Using C//作者:Aaro M Tenenbaum

http://books.google.co.in/books?id=X0Cd1Pr2W0gC&pg=PA456&lpg=PA456&dq=drawback+of+B-Tree+is+the+difficulty+of+Traversing+the+keys+sequentially&source=bl&ots=pGcPQSEJMS&sig=F9MY7zEXYAMVKl_Sg4W-0LTRor8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nD5AUbeeH4zwrQe12oCYAQ&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=drawback%20of%20B-Tree%20is%20the%20difficulty%20of%20Traversing%20the%20keys%20sequentially&f=false

The primary distinction between B-tree and B+tree is that B-tree eliminates the redundant storage of search key values.Since search keys are not repeated in the B-tree,we may not be able to store the index using fewer tree nodes than in corresponding B+tree index.However,since search key that appear in non-leaf nodes appear nowhere else in B-tree,we are forced to include an additional pointer field for each search key in a non-leaf node. Their are space advantages for B-tree, as repetition does not occur and can be used for large indices.

B+树尤其适用于基于块的存储(例如:硬盘)。考虑到这一点，你会得到几个优势，例如(从我的脑海中):

high fanout / low depth: that means you have to get less blocks to get to the data. with data intermingled with the pointers, each read gets less pointers, so you need more seeks to get to the data simple and consistent block storage: an inner node has N pointers, nothing else, a leaf node has data, nothing else. that makes it easy to parse, debug and even reconstruct. high key density means the top nodes are almost certainly on cache, in many cases all inner nodes get quickly cached, so only the data access has to go to disk.