Depending on your needs, check out Skip Lists. Lower constant factors, and easier implimentation. Unless you want them to page from disk as nicely as a B-tree, in which case you're back into the land ...
Database tools provider Tokutek has updated its MySQL storage engine to support live updating of schemas, the company announced Wednesday. Taking a database offline to update the schema can be too ...
First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads. Here's how columnstore indexes work and what types of data work ...