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Know Thy Complexities!

Hi there!  This webpage covers the space and time Big-O complexities of common algorithms used in Computer Science.  When preparing for technical interviews in the past, I found myself spending hours crawling the internet putting together the best, average, and worst case complexities for search and sorting algorithms so that I wouldn't be stumped when asked about them.  Over the last few years, I've interviewed at several Silicon Valley startups, and also some bigger companies, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and Uber, and each time that I prepared for an interview, I thought to myself "Why hasn't someone created a nice Big-O cheat sheet?".  So, to save all of you fine folks a ton of time, I went ahead and created one.  Enjoy! - Eric

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Common Data Structure Operations

Data StructureTime ComplexitySpace Complexity
 AverageWorstWorst
 AccessSearchInsertionDeletionAccessSearchInsertionDeletion 
ArrayΘ(1)Θ(n)Θ(n)Θ(n)O(1)O(n)O(n)O(n)O(n)
StackΘ(n)Θ(n)Θ(1)Θ(1)O(n)O(n)O(1)O(1)O(n)
QueueΘ(n)Θ(n)Θ(1)Θ(1)O(n)O(n)O(1)O(1)O(n)
Singly-Linked ListΘ(n)Θ(n)Θ(1)Θ(1)O(n)O(n)O(1)O(1)O(n)
Doubly-Linked ListΘ(n)Θ(n)Θ(1)Θ(1)O(n)O(n)O(1)O(1)O(n)
Skip ListΘ(log(n))Θ(log(n))Θ(log(n))Θ(log(n))O(n)O(n)O(n)O(n)O(n log(n))
Hash TableN/AΘ(1)Θ(1)Θ(1)N/AO(n)O(n)O(n)O(n)
Binary Search TreeΘ(log(n))Θ(log(n))Θ(log(n))Θ(log(n))O(n)O(n)O(n)O(n)O(n)
Cartesian TreeN/AΘ(log(n))Θ(log(n))Θ(log(n))N/AO(n)O(n)O(n)O(n)
B-TreeΘ(log(n))Θ(log(n))Θ(log(n))Θ(log(n))O(log(n))O(log(n))O(log(n))O(log(n))O(n)
Red-Black TreeΘ(log(n))Θ(log(n))Θ(log(n))Θ(log(n))O(log(n))O(log(n))O(log(n))O(log(n))O(n)
Splay TreeN/AΘ(log(n))Θ(log(n))Θ(log(n))N/AO(log(n))O(log(n))O(log(n))O(n)
AVL TreeΘ(log(n))Θ(log(n))Θ(log(n))Θ(log(n))O(log(n))O(log(n))O(log(n))O(log(n))O(n)
KD TreeΘ(log(n))Θ(log(n))Θ(log(n))Θ(log(n))O(n)O(n)O(n)O(n)O(n)

Array Sorting Algorithms

AlgorithmTime ComplexitySpace Complexity
 BestAverageWorstWorst
QuicksortΩ(n log(n))Θ(n log(n))O(n^2)O(log(n))
MergesortΩ(n log(n))Θ(n log(n))O(n log(n))O(n)
TimsortΩ(n)Θ(n log(n))O(n log(n))O(n)
HeapsortΩ(n log(n))Θ(n log(n))O(n log(n))O(1)
Bubble SortΩ(n)Θ(n^2)O(n^2)O(1)
Insertion SortΩ(n)Θ(n^2)O(n^2)O(1)
Selection SortΩ(n^2)Θ(n^2)O(n^2)O(1)
Tree SortΩ(n log(n))Θ(n log(n))O(n^2)O(n)
Shell SortΩ(n log(n))Θ(n(log(n))^2)O(n(log(n))^2)O(1)
Bucket SortΩ(n+k)Θ(n+k)O(n^2)O(n)
Radix SortΩ(nk)Θ(nk)O(nk)O(n+k)
Counting SortΩ(n+k)Θ(n+k)O(n+k)O(k)
CubesortΩ(n)Θ(n log(n))O(n log(n))O(n)

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