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Fig. 1: A binary search tree of size 9 and depth 3, with 8 at the root. In computer science, a binary search tree (BST), also called an ordered or sorted binary tree, is a rooted binary tree data structure with the key of each internal node being greater than all the keys in the respective node's left subtree and less than the ones in its right subtree.
To insert a new element, search the tree to find the leaf node where the new element should be added. Insert the new element into that node with the following steps: If the node contains fewer than the maximum allowed number of elements, then there is room for the new element. Insert the new element in the node, keeping the node's elements ordered.
The process of inserting a node into a binary tree. Insertion on internal nodes is slightly more complex than on leaf nodes. Say that the internal node is node A and that node B is the child of A. (If the insertion is to insert a right child, then B is the right child of A, and similarly with a left child insertion.)
To insert an element to a heap, we perform the following steps: Add the element to the bottom level of the heap at the leftmost open space. Compare the added element with its parent; if they are in the correct order, stop. If not, swap the element with its parent and return to the previous step.
When inserting a node into an AVL tree, you initially follow the same process as inserting into a Binary Search Tree. If the tree is empty, then the node is inserted as the root of the tree. If the tree is not empty, then we go down the root, and recursively go down the tree searching for the location to insert the new node.
Here is one example for inserting an element to a Min-Max Heap. Say we have the following min-max heap and want to insert a new node with value 6. Initially, node 6 is inserted as a right child of the node 11. 6 is less than 11, therefore it is less than all the nodes on the max levels (41), and we need to check only the min levels (8 and 11).
Recursively traverse the current node's left subtree. In a binary search tree ordered such that in each node the key is greater than all keys in its left subtree and less than all keys in its right subtree, reverse in-order traversal retrieves the keys in descending sorted order.
For all nodes, the left subtree's key must be less than the node's key, and the right subtree's key must be greater than the node's key. These subtrees must all qualify as binary search trees. The worst-case time complexity for searching a binary search tree is the height of the tree, which can be as small as O(log n) for a tree with n elements.