Question

A B+ tree index is built on an attribute used mainly for range queries. Why is a B+ tree generally preferable to a hash index for this workload?

A Hashing guarantees sorted leaf traversal
B Hash indexes cannot support equality predicates
C B+ trees eliminate all index maintenance costs
D B+ trees support ordered traversal across key ranges
E Hash indexes always require more disk pages
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