This document discusses red-black trees, which are self-balancing binary search trees. Red-black trees guarantee O(log n) time for operations by ensuring that no path from root to leaf is more than twice as long as any other. They achieve this balance by coloring nodes red or black and enforcing properties like nodes having black height within 1 of each other. The document covers red-black tree properties, rotations used during insertions and deletions, and algorithms for inserting and deleting nodes while maintaining the red-black tree structure.