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Comment on The Ubiquitous B-Tree (1979) [pdf]

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If you are interested in an overview of B-Trees, similar data structures, and how well they work on modern hardware, you may also find the survey bit of my master thesis interesting:

See here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Florian_Gross/publicati....

Along those lines:

* CSS Trees: Pointerless b-Trees with a layout optimized for cache lines (http://www.vldb.org/conf/1999/P7.pdf)

* Intel & Oracle's fast architecture-sensitive tree search (combines huge pages, cache line blocking, and SIMD in an optimal layout): http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jatin_Chhugani/publicati...

* Adaptive radix trees (http://codematch.muehe.org/~leis/papers/ART.pdf)

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