2-3 trees and 2-4 trees are multiway search trees that maintain balance by ensuring each internal node has k items and k+1 children, allowing for efficient insertion and deletion. Red-black trees are a type of self-balancing binary search tree where each node is colored red or black, and properties of the coloring are used to perform rotations during insertion and deletion to maintain balance. Common operations like search, insertion and deletion on these balanced search tree structures take O(log n) time, improving on the O(n) time of an unbalanced binary search tree.