diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-external-data/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/external/indexing/ExternalFileIndexAccessor.java b/asterixdb/asterix-external-data/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/external/indexing/ExternalFileIndexAccessor.java
index c11fb61..88b8a14 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-external-data/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/external/indexing/ExternalFileIndexAccessor.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-external-data/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/external/indexing/ExternalFileIndexAccessor.java
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
         searchKeyTupleBuilder.reset();
         searchKeyTupleBuilder.addField(intSerde, currentFileNumber);
         searchKey.reset(searchKeyTupleBuilder.getFieldEndOffsets(), searchKeyTupleBuilder.getByteArray());
-        fileIndexSearchCursor.reset();
+        fileIndexSearchCursor.close();
 
         // Perform search
         fileIndexAccessor.search(fileIndexSearchCursor, searchPredicate);
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
     public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (index != null) {
             try {
-                fileIndexSearchCursor.close();
+                fileIndexSearchCursor.destroy();
             } finally {
                 indexDataflowHelper.close();
             }
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-metadata/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/metadata/MetadataNode.java b/asterixdb/asterix-metadata/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/metadata/MetadataNode.java
index 368fc2a..ed3bbe0 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-metadata/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/metadata/MetadataNode.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-metadata/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/metadata/MetadataNode.java
@@ -19,15 +19,12 @@
 
 package org.apache.asterix.metadata;
 
-import static org.apache.asterix.common.transactions.ITransactionManager.AtomicityLevel;
-
 import java.rmi.RemoteException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
 import org.apache.asterix.common.api.IDatasetLifecycleManager;
 import org.apache.asterix.common.api.INcApplicationContext;
@@ -40,6 +37,7 @@
 import org.apache.asterix.common.transactions.DatasetId;
 import org.apache.asterix.common.transactions.IRecoveryManager.ResourceType;
 import org.apache.asterix.common.transactions.ITransactionContext;
+import org.apache.asterix.common.transactions.ITransactionManager.AtomicityLevel;
 import org.apache.asterix.common.transactions.ITransactionSubsystem;
 import org.apache.asterix.common.transactions.ImmutableDatasetId;
 import org.apache.asterix.common.transactions.TransactionOptions;
@@ -111,7 +109,6 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.accessors.ITupleReference;
 import org.apache.hyracks.dataflow.common.utils.TupleUtils;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.btree.impls.RangePredicate;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.IndexAccessParameters;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.NoOpIndexAccessParameters;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.NoOpOperationCallback;
@@ -1182,7 +1179,7 @@
             IIndex indexInstance = datasetLifecycleManager.get(resourceName);
             datasetLifecycleManager.open(resourceName);
             IIndexAccessor indexAccessor = indexInstance.createAccessor(NoOpIndexAccessParameters.INSTANCE);
-            ITreeIndexCursor rangeCursor = (ITreeIndexCursor) indexAccessor.createSearchCursor(false);
+            IIndexCursor rangeCursor = indexAccessor.createSearchCursor(false);
 
             RangePredicate rangePred = null;
             rangePred = new RangePredicate(null, null, true, true, null, null);
@@ -1194,7 +1191,7 @@
                             SerializerDeserializerProvider.INSTANCE.getSerializerDeserializer(BuiltinType.ASTRING) }));
                 }
             } finally {
-                rangeCursor.close();
+                rangeCursor.destroy();
             }
             datasetLifecycleManager.close(resourceName);
 
@@ -1202,7 +1199,7 @@
             indexInstance = datasetLifecycleManager.get(resourceName);
             datasetLifecycleManager.open(resourceName);
             indexAccessor = indexInstance.createAccessor(NoOpIndexAccessParameters.INSTANCE);
-            rangeCursor = (ITreeIndexCursor) indexAccessor.createSearchCursor(false);
+            rangeCursor = indexAccessor.createSearchCursor(false);
 
             rangePred = null;
             rangePred = new RangePredicate(null, null, true, true, null, null);
@@ -1215,7 +1212,7 @@
                             SerializerDeserializerProvider.INSTANCE.getSerializerDeserializer(BuiltinType.ASTRING) }));
                 }
             } finally {
-                rangeCursor.close();
+                rangeCursor.destroy();
             }
             datasetLifecycleManager.close(resourceName);
 
@@ -1223,7 +1220,7 @@
             indexInstance = datasetLifecycleManager.get(resourceName);
             datasetLifecycleManager.open(resourceName);
             indexAccessor = indexInstance.createAccessor(NoOpIndexAccessParameters.INSTANCE);
-            rangeCursor = (ITreeIndexCursor) indexAccessor.createSearchCursor(false);
+            rangeCursor = indexAccessor.createSearchCursor(false);
 
             rangePred = null;
             rangePred = new RangePredicate(null, null, true, true, null, null);
@@ -1237,7 +1234,7 @@
                             SerializerDeserializerProvider.INSTANCE.getSerializerDeserializer(BuiltinType.ASTRING) }));
                 }
             } finally {
-                rangeCursor.close();
+                rangeCursor.destroy();
             }
             datasetLifecycleManager.close(resourceName);
         } catch (Exception e) {
@@ -1258,7 +1255,7 @@
         IIndex indexInstance = datasetLifecycleManager.get(resourceName);
         datasetLifecycleManager.open(resourceName);
         IIndexAccessor indexAccessor = indexInstance.createAccessor(NoOpIndexAccessParameters.INSTANCE);
-        ITreeIndexCursor rangeCursor = (ITreeIndexCursor) indexAccessor.createSearchCursor(false);
+        IIndexCursor rangeCursor = indexAccessor.createSearchCursor(false);
 
         IBinaryComparator[] searchCmps = null;
         MultiComparator searchCmp = null;
@@ -1282,7 +1279,7 @@
                 }
             }
         } finally {
-            rangeCursor.close();
+            rangeCursor.destroy();
         }
         datasetLifecycleManager.close(resourceName);
     }
@@ -1316,7 +1313,7 @@
                         }
                     }
                 } finally {
-                    rangeCursor.close();
+                    rangeCursor.destroy();
                 }
             } finally {
                 datasetLifecycleManager.close(resourceName);
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/runtime/operators/LSMPrimaryUpsertOperatorNodePushable.java b/asterixdb/asterix-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/runtime/operators/LSMPrimaryUpsertOperatorNodePushable.java
index 4855a27..0d74e30 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/runtime/operators/LSMPrimaryUpsertOperatorNodePushable.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/runtime/operators/LSMPrimaryUpsertOperatorNodePushable.java
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
 import org.apache.asterix.common.api.INcApplicationContext;
 import org.apache.asterix.common.dataflow.LSMIndexUtil;
 import org.apache.asterix.common.exceptions.ACIDException;
-import org.apache.asterix.common.exceptions.AsterixException;
 import org.apache.asterix.common.transactions.ILogMarkerCallback;
 import org.apache.asterix.common.transactions.PrimaryIndexLogMarkerCallback;
 import org.apache.asterix.om.pointables.nonvisitor.ARecordPointable;
@@ -143,7 +142,7 @@
                         if (cursor.hasNext()) {
                             cursor.next();
                             prevTuple = cursor.getTuple();
-                            cursor.reset(); // end the search
+                            cursor.close(); // end the search
                             appendFilterToPrevTuple();
                             appendPrevRecord();
                             appendPreviousMeta();
@@ -318,7 +317,7 @@
         if (isFiltered) {
             writeMissingField();
         }
-        cursor.reset();
+        cursor.close();
     }
 
     /**
@@ -361,7 +360,7 @@
     public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
         try {
             try {
-                cursor.close();
+                cursor.destroy();
             } finally {
                 writer.close();
             }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/impls/BTreeCountingSearchCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/impls/BTreeCountingSearchCursor.java
index d7084bb..82df92c 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/impls/BTreeCountingSearchCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/impls/BTreeCountingSearchCursor.java
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void destroy() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (page != null) {
             releasePage();
         }
@@ -220,9 +220,9 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void reset() {
+    public void close() {
         try {
-            close();
+            destroy();
         } catch (Exception e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
         }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/impls/BTreeRangeSearchCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/impls/BTreeRangeSearchCursor.java
index 13cb57a..5ce9e1a 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/impls/BTreeRangeSearchCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/impls/BTreeRangeSearchCursor.java
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void destroy() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (page != null) {
             if (exclusiveLatchNodes) {
                 page.releaseWriteLatch(isPageDirty);
@@ -292,8 +292,8 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void reset() throws HyracksDataException {
-        close();
+    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
+        destroy();
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/test/FramewriterTest.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/test/FramewriterTest.java
index 64f8263..4ff0656 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/test/FramewriterTest.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/test/FramewriterTest.java
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@
             cursor = Mockito.mock(IIndexCursor.class);
             Mockito.when(cursor.hasNext()).thenReturn(true, true, false);
             Mockito.when(cursor.getTuple()).thenReturn(tuples[i]);
-            Mockito.doThrow(new HyracksDataException("Failed to close cursor")).when(cursor).close();
+            Mockito.doThrow(new HyracksDataException("Failed to close cursor")).when(cursor).destroy();
             cursors[j] = cursor;
             j++;
         }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/dataflow/IndexSearchOperatorNodePushable.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/dataflow/IndexSearchOperatorNodePushable.java
index 1e5f69b..09812c1 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/dataflow/IndexSearchOperatorNodePushable.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/dataflow/IndexSearchOperatorNodePushable.java
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
         try {
             for (int i = 0; i < tupleCount; i++) {
                 resetSearchPredicate(i);
-                cursor.reset();
+                cursor.close();
                 indexAccessor.search(cursor, searchPred);
                 writeSearchResults(i);
             }
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@
             }
 
             try {
-                cursor.close();
+                cursor.destroy();
             } catch (Throwable th) {
                 if (closeException == null) {
                     closeException = HyracksDataException.create(th);
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/dataflow/TreeIndexDiskOrderScanOperatorNodePushable.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/dataflow/TreeIndexDiskOrderScanOperatorNodePushable.java
index dc86c74..7626815 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/dataflow/TreeIndexDiskOrderScanOperatorNodePushable.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/dataflow/TreeIndexDiskOrderScanOperatorNodePushable.java
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
                 throw new HyracksDataException(th);
             } finally {
                 try {
-                    cursor.close();
+                    cursor.destroy();
                 } catch (Exception cursorCloseException) {
                     throw new IllegalStateException(cursorCloseException);
                 } finally {
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/impls/TreeIndexDiskOrderScanCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/impls/TreeIndexDiskOrderScanCursor.java
index 0b8b64c..6bc5be2 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/impls/TreeIndexDiskOrderScanCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/impls/TreeIndexDiskOrderScanCursor.java
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void destroy() throws HyracksDataException {
         page.releaseReadLatch();
         bufferCache.unpin(page);
         page = null;
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void reset() {
+    public void close() {
         tupleIndex = 0;
         currentPageId = -1;
         maxPageId = -1;
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/ExternalBTree.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/ExternalBTree.java
index 5b6ff9e..280803d 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/ExternalBTree.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/ExternalBTree.java
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.btree.impls.BTree;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.IIndexOperationContext;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.IMetadataPageManager;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexFrameFactory;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITwoPCIndexBulkLoader;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.NoOpOperationCallback;
@@ -188,7 +187,7 @@
                 returnDeletedTuples = true;
             }
         }
-        ITreeIndexCursor cursor = new LSMBTreeRangeSearchCursor(opCtx, returnDeletedTuples);
+        LSMBTreeRangeSearchCursor cursor = new LSMBTreeRangeSearchCursor(opCtx, returnDeletedTuples);
         BTree firstBTree = ((LSMBTreeDiskComponent) mergingComponents.get(0)).getIndex();
         BTree lastBTree = ((LSMBTreeDiskComponent) mergingComponents.get(mergingComponents.size() - 1)).getIndex();
         FileReference firstFile = firstBTree.getFileReference();
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/ExternalBTreeWithBuddy.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/ExternalBTreeWithBuddy.java
index c6ce339..5f04c0a 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/ExternalBTreeWithBuddy.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/ExternalBTreeWithBuddy.java
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.IIndexOperationContext;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.IMetadataPageManager;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndex;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexFrameFactory;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITwoPCIndexBulkLoader;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.NoOpOperationCallback;
@@ -273,7 +272,7 @@
         ILSMIndexOperationContext bctx = createOpContext(NoOpOperationCallback.INSTANCE, 0);
         bctx.setOperation(IndexOperation.MERGE);
         List<ILSMComponent> mergingComponents = ctx.getComponentHolder();
-        ITreeIndexCursor cursor = new LSMBTreeWithBuddySortedCursor(bctx, buddyBTreeFields);
+        LSMBTreeWithBuddySortedCursor cursor = new LSMBTreeWithBuddySortedCursor(bctx, buddyBTreeFields);
         LSMComponentFileReferences relMergeFileRefs = getMergeTargetFileName(mergingComponents);
         ILSMIndexAccessor accessor = new LSMTreeIndexAccessor(getHarness(), bctx,
                 opCtx -> new LSMBTreeWithBuddySearchCursor(opCtx, buddyBTreeFields));
@@ -342,7 +341,7 @@
                     componentBulkLoader.delete(tuple);
                 }
             } finally {
-                buddyBtreeCursor.close();
+                buddyBtreeCursor.destroy();
             }
         } else {
             componentBulkLoader = mergedComponent.createBulkLoader(1.0f, false, 0L, false, false, false);
@@ -355,7 +354,7 @@
                 componentBulkLoader.add(frameTuple);
             }
         } finally {
-            cursor.close();
+            cursor.destroy();
         }
         componentBulkLoader.end();
         return mergedComponent;
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTree.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTree.java
index 6929530..482ad38 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTree.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTree.java
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.IIndexOperationContext;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.IPageManager;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndex;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexFrameFactory;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.NoOpIndexAccessParameters;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.btree.tuples.LSMBTreeTupleReference;
@@ -189,14 +188,14 @@
                     if (!lsmbtreeTuple.isAntimatter()) {
                         throw HyracksDataException.create(ErrorCode.DUPLICATE_KEY);
                     } else {
-                        memCursor.close();
+                        memCursor.destroy();
                         ctx.getCurrentMutableBTreeAccessor().upsertIfConditionElseInsert(tuple,
                                 AntimatterAwareTupleAcceptor.INSTANCE);
                         return true;
                     }
                 }
             } finally {
-                memCursor.close();
+                memCursor.destroy();
             }
 
             // TODO: Can we just remove the above code that search the mutable
@@ -214,7 +213,7 @@
                     throw HyracksDataException.create(ErrorCode.DUPLICATE_KEY);
                 }
             } finally {
-                searchCursor.close();
+                searchCursor.destroy();
                 // Add the current active mutable component back
                 ctx.getComponentHolder().add(0, firstComponent);
             }
@@ -264,7 +263,7 @@
                     numElements = IntegerPointable.getInteger(countTuple.getFieldData(0), countTuple.getFieldStart(0));
                 }
             } finally {
-                countingCursor.close();
+                countingCursor.destroy();
             }
         }
 
@@ -287,7 +286,7 @@
                 componentBulkLoader.add(scanCursor.getTuple());
             }
         } finally {
-            scanCursor.close();
+            scanCursor.destroy();
         }
 
         if (component.getLSMComponentFilter() != null) {
@@ -337,7 +336,7 @@
                 componentBulkLoader.add(frameTuple);
             }
         } finally {
-            cursor.close();
+            cursor.destroy();
         }
         if (mergedComponent.getLSMComponentFilter() != null) {
             List<ITupleReference> filterTuples = new ArrayList<>();
@@ -442,7 +441,7 @@
         if (mergingComponents.get(mergingComponents.size() - 1) != diskComponents.get(diskComponents.size() - 1)) {
             returnDeletedTuples = true;
         }
-        ITreeIndexCursor cursor = new LSMBTreeRangeSearchCursor(opCtx, returnDeletedTuples);
+        LSMBTreeRangeSearchCursor cursor = new LSMBTreeRangeSearchCursor(opCtx, returnDeletedTuples);
         return new LSMBTreeMergeOperation(accessor, cursor, mergeFileRefs.getInsertIndexFileReference(),
                 mergeFileRefs.getBloomFilterFileReference(), callback, fileManager.getBaseDir().getAbsolutePath());
     }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeDiskComponentScanCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeDiskComponentScanCursor.java
index 2f77504..efaf555 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeDiskComponentScanCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeDiskComponentScanCursor.java
@@ -176,11 +176,11 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void destroy() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (lsmHarness != null) {
             try {
                 for (int i = 0; i < rangeCursors.length; i++) {
-                    rangeCursors[i].close();
+                    rangeCursors[i].destroy();
                 }
                 rangeCursors = null;
             } finally {
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeMergeOperation.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeMergeOperation.java
index ec96303..edfa7e1 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeMergeOperation.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeMergeOperation.java
@@ -20,16 +20,16 @@
 package org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.btree.impls;
 
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.io.FileReference;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.ILSMIOOperationCallback;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.ILSMIndexAccessor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.impls.MergeOperation;
+import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexCursor;
 
 public class LSMBTreeMergeOperation extends MergeOperation {
 
     private final FileReference bloomFilterMergeTarget;
 
-    public LSMBTreeMergeOperation(ILSMIndexAccessor accessor, ITreeIndexCursor cursor, FileReference target,
+    public LSMBTreeMergeOperation(ILSMIndexAccessor accessor, IIndexCursor cursor, FileReference target,
             FileReference bloomFilterMergeTarget, ILSMIOOperationCallback callback, String indexIdentifier) {
         super(accessor, target, callback, indexIdentifier, cursor);
         this.bloomFilterMergeTarget = bloomFilterMergeTarget;
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreePointSearchCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreePointSearchCursor.java
index 211a233..0284ee1 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreePointSearchCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreePointSearchCursor.java
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.btree.impls.BTree.BTreeAccessor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.btree.impls.BTreeRangeSearchCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.btree.impls.RangePredicate;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.NoOpIndexAccessParameters;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.NoOpOperationCallback;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.ILSMComponent;
@@ -39,11 +38,11 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.ILSMIndexOperationContext;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.ILSMTreeTupleReference;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.ICursorInitialState;
+import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.ISearchOperationCallback;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.ISearchPredicate;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.buffercache.IBufferCache;
 
-public class LSMBTreePointSearchCursor implements ITreeIndexCursor {
+public class LSMBTreePointSearchCursor implements IIndexCursor {
 
     private BTreeRangeSearchCursor[] rangeCursors;
     private final ILSMIndexOperationContext opCtx;
@@ -89,7 +88,7 @@
                         if (reconciled) {
                             searchCallback.cancel(predicate.getLowKey());
                         }
-                        rangeCursors[i].close();
+                        rangeCursors[i].destroy();
                         return false;
                     } else {
                         frameTuple = rangeCursors[i].getTuple();
@@ -100,7 +99,7 @@
                 }
                 if (i == 0 && includeMutableComponent) {
                     // unlatch/unpin
-                    rangeCursors[i].reset();
+                    rangeCursors[i].close();
                     searchCallback.reconcile(predicate.getLowKey());
                     reconciled = true;
 
@@ -110,7 +109,7 @@
                         rangeCursors[i].next();
                         if (((ILSMTreeTupleReference) rangeCursors[i].getTuple()).isAntimatter()) {
                             searchCallback.cancel(predicate.getLowKey());
-                            rangeCursors[i].close();
+                            rangeCursors[i].destroy();
                             return false;
                         } else {
                             frameTuple = rangeCursors[i].getTuple();
@@ -121,7 +120,7 @@
                         }
                     } else {
                         searchCallback.cancel(predicate.getLowKey());
-                        rangeCursors[i].close();
+                        rangeCursors[i].destroy();
                     }
                 } else {
                     frameTuple = rangeCursors[i].getTuple();
@@ -132,18 +131,18 @@
                     return true;
                 }
             } else {
-                rangeCursors[i].close();
+                rangeCursors[i].destroy();
             }
         }
         return false;
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void reset() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
         try {
             if (rangeCursors != null) {
                 for (int i = 0; i < rangeCursors.length; ++i) {
-                    rangeCursors[i].reset();
+                    rangeCursors[i].close();
                 }
             }
             nextHasBeenCalled = false;
@@ -182,7 +181,7 @@
                     rangeCursors[i] = new BTreeRangeSearchCursor(leafFrame, false);
                 } else {
                     // reset
-                    rangeCursors[i].reset();
+                    rangeCursors[i].close();
                 }
                 btree = ((LSMBTreeMemoryComponent) component).getIndex();
                 // no bloom filter for in-memory BTree
@@ -190,7 +189,7 @@
             } else {
                 if (rangeCursors[i] != null) {
                     // can re-use cursor
-                    rangeCursors[i].reset();
+                    rangeCursors[i].close();
                 } else {
                     // create new cursor <should be relatively rare>
                     IBTreeLeafFrame leafFrame = (IBTreeLeafFrame) lsmInitialState.getLeafFrameFactory().createFrame();
@@ -216,7 +215,7 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void destroy() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (lsmHarness != null) {
             try {
                 closeCursors();
@@ -253,26 +252,11 @@
         return null;
     }
 
-    @Override
-    public void setBufferCache(IBufferCache bufferCache) {
-        // do nothing
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void setFileId(int fileId) {
-        // do nothing
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public boolean isExclusiveLatchNodes() {
-        return false;
-    }
-
     private void closeCursors() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (rangeCursors != null) {
             for (int i = 0; i < numBTrees; ++i) {
                 if (rangeCursors[i] != null) {
-                    rangeCursors[i].close();
+                    rangeCursors[i].destroy();
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeRangeSearchCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeRangeSearchCursor.java
index 876bc6d..36ca87f 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeRangeSearchCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeRangeSearchCursor.java
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void reset() throws HyracksDataException {
-        super.reset();
+    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
+        super.close();
         canCallProceed = true;
     }
 
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
                         TupleUtils.copyTuple(tupleBuilder, queueHead.getTuple(), cmp.getKeyFieldCount());
                         copyTuple.reset(tupleBuilder.getFieldEndOffsets(), tupleBuilder.getByteArray());
                         // Unlatches/unpins the leaf page of the index.
-                        rangeCursors[0].reset();
+                        rangeCursors[0].close();
                         // Reconcile.
                         searchCallback.reconcile(copyTuple);
                         // Re-traverses the index.
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@
                     copyTuple.reset(switchComponentTupleBuilders[i].getFieldEndOffsets(),
                             switchComponentTupleBuilders[i].getByteArray());
                     reusablePred.setLowKey(copyTuple, true);
-                    rangeCursors[i].reset();
+                    rangeCursors[i].close();
                     btreeAccessors[i].reset(btree, NoOpOperationCallback.INSTANCE, NoOpOperationCallback.INSTANCE);
                     btreeAccessors[i].search(rangeCursors[i], reusablePred);
                     pushIntoQueueFromCursorAndReplaceThisElement(switchedElements[i]);
@@ -268,8 +268,8 @@
                     }
                     TupleUtils.copyTuple(switchComponentTupleBuilders[i], element.getTuple(), cmp.getKeyFieldCount());
                 }
-                rangeCursors[i].reset();
                 rangeCursors[i].close();
+                rangeCursors[i].destroy();
                 switchRequest[i] = true;
                 switchedElements[i] = element;
             }
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@
                 TupleUtils.copyTuple(tupleBuilder, mutableElement.getTuple(), cmp.getKeyFieldCount());
                 copyTuple.reset(tupleBuilder.getFieldEndOffsets(), tupleBuilder.getByteArray());
                 // Unlatches/unpins the leaf page of the index.
-                rangeCursors[0].reset();
+                rangeCursors[0].close();
                 // Re-traverses the index.
                 reusablePred.setLowKey(copyTuple, true);
                 btreeAccessors[0].search(rangeCursors[0], reusablePred);
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@
                 rangeCursors[i] = new BTreeRangeSearchCursor(leafFrame, false);
             } else {
                 // re-use
-                rangeCursors[i].reset();
+                rangeCursors[i].close();
             }
 
             if (component.getType() == LSMComponentType.MEMORY) {
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeSearchCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeSearchCursor.java
index fef8afe..fa06d07 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeSearchCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeSearchCursor.java
@@ -22,13 +22,12 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
 import org.apache.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.accessors.ITupleReference;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.btree.impls.RangePredicate;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.ILSMIndexOperationContext;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.ICursorInitialState;
+import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.ISearchPredicate;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.buffercache.IBufferCache;
 
-public class LSMBTreeSearchCursor implements ITreeIndexCursor {
+public class LSMBTreeSearchCursor implements IIndexCursor {
 
     public enum LSMBTreeSearchType {
         POINT,
@@ -38,7 +37,7 @@
     private final LSMBTreePointSearchCursor pointCursor;
     private final LSMBTreeRangeSearchCursor rangeCursor;
     private final LSMBTreeDiskComponentScanCursor scanCursor;
-    private ITreeIndexCursor currentCursor;
+    private IIndexCursor currentCursor;
 
     public LSMBTreeSearchCursor(ILSMIndexOperationContext opCtx) {
         pointCursor = new LSMBTreePointSearchCursor(opCtx);
@@ -72,17 +71,17 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void destroy() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (currentCursor != null) {
-            currentCursor.close();
+            currentCursor.destroy();
         }
         currentCursor = null;
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void reset() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (currentCursor != null) {
-            currentCursor.reset();
+            currentCursor.close();
         }
         currentCursor = null;
     }
@@ -101,21 +100,4 @@
     public ITupleReference getFilterMaxTuple() {
         return currentCursor.getFilterMaxTuple();
     }
-
-    @Override
-    public void setBufferCache(IBufferCache bufferCache) {
-        currentCursor.setBufferCache(bufferCache);
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void setFileId(int fileId) {
-        currentCursor.setFileId(fileId);
-
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public boolean isExclusiveLatchNodes() {
-        return currentCursor.isExclusiveLatchNodes();
-    }
-
 }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeWithBuddyAbstractCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeWithBuddyAbstractCursor.java
index f619a52..50aeefb 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeWithBuddyAbstractCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeWithBuddyAbstractCursor.java
@@ -36,11 +36,11 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.ILSMHarness;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.ILSMIndexOperationContext;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.ICursorInitialState;
+import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.ISearchPredicate;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.MultiComparator;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.buffercache.IBufferCache;
 
-public abstract class LSMBTreeWithBuddyAbstractCursor implements ITreeIndexCursor {
+public abstract class LSMBTreeWithBuddyAbstractCursor implements IIndexCursor {
 
     protected boolean open;
     protected BTreeRangeSearchCursor[] btreeCursors;
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
                     buddyBtreeCursors[i] = new BTreeRangeSearchCursor(
                             (IBTreeLeafFrame) lsmInitialState.getBuddyBTreeLeafFrameFactory().createFrame(), false);
                 } else {
-                    buddyBtreeCursors[i].reset();
+                    buddyBtreeCursors[i].close();
                 }
                 btree = ((LSMBTreeWithBuddyMemoryComponent) component).getIndex();
                 buddyBtree = ((LSMBTreeWithBuddyMemoryComponent) component).getBuddyIndex();
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
                     buddyBtreeCursors[i] = new BTreeRangeSearchCursor(
                             (IBTreeLeafFrame) lsmInitialState.getBuddyBTreeLeafFrameFactory().createFrame(), false);
                 } else {
-                    buddyBtreeCursors[i].reset();
+                    buddyBtreeCursors[i].close();
                 }
                 btree = ((LSMBTreeWithBuddyDiskComponent) component).getIndex();
                 buddyBtree = ((LSMBTreeWithBuddyDiskComponent) component).getBuddyIndex();
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
                 btreeAccessors[i] = btree.createAccessor(NoOpIndexAccessParameters.INSTANCE);
                 buddyBtreeAccessors[i] = buddyBtree.createAccessor(NoOpIndexAccessParameters.INSTANCE);
             } else {
-                btreeCursors[i].reset();
+                btreeCursors[i].close();
                 btreeAccessors[i].reset(btree, NoOpOperationCallback.INSTANCE, NoOpOperationCallback.INSTANCE);
                 buddyBtreeAccessors[i].reset(buddyBtree, NoOpOperationCallback.INSTANCE,
                         NoOpOperationCallback.INSTANCE);
@@ -141,15 +141,15 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void destroy() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (!open) {
             return;
         }
         try {
             if (btreeCursors != null && buddyBtreeCursors != null) {
                 for (int i = 0; i < numberOfTrees; i++) {
-                    btreeCursors[i].close();
-                    buddyBtreeCursors[i].close();
+                    btreeCursors[i].destroy();
+                    buddyBtreeCursors[i].destroy();
                 }
             }
             btreeCursors = null;
@@ -165,20 +165,4 @@
     public ITupleReference getTuple() {
         return frameTuple;
     }
-
-    @Override
-    public void setBufferCache(IBufferCache bufferCache) {
-        // Do nothing
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void setFileId(int fileId) {
-        // Do nothing
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public boolean isExclusiveLatchNodes() {
-        return false;
-    }
-
 }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeWithBuddyMergeOperation.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeWithBuddyMergeOperation.java
index f682bde..14cf778 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeWithBuddyMergeOperation.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeWithBuddyMergeOperation.java
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@
 package org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.btree.impls;
 
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.io.FileReference;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.ILSMIOOperationCallback;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.ILSMIndexAccessor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.impls.MergeOperation;
+import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexCursor;
 
 public class LSMBTreeWithBuddyMergeOperation extends MergeOperation {
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
     private final FileReference bloomFilterMergeTarget;
     private final boolean keepDeletedTuples;
 
-    public LSMBTreeWithBuddyMergeOperation(ILSMIndexAccessor accessor, ITreeIndexCursor cursor, FileReference target,
+    public LSMBTreeWithBuddyMergeOperation(ILSMIndexAccessor accessor, IIndexCursor cursor, FileReference target,
             FileReference buddyBtreeMergeTarget, FileReference bloomFilterMergeTarget, ILSMIOOperationCallback callback,
             String indexIdentifier, boolean keepDeletedTuples) {
         super(accessor, target, callback, indexIdentifier, cursor);
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeWithBuddySearchCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeWithBuddySearchCursor.java
index 503182a..c7f5cea 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeWithBuddySearchCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeWithBuddySearchCursor.java
@@ -37,13 +37,13 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
-        super.close();
+    public void destroy() throws HyracksDataException {
+        super.destroy();
         currentCursor = 0;
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void reset() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (!open) {
             return;
         }
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@
         foundNext = false;
         try {
             for (int i = 0; i < numberOfTrees; i++) {
-                btreeCursors[i].close();
-                buddyBtreeCursors[i].close();
+                btreeCursors[i].destroy();
+                buddyBtreeCursors[i].destroy();
             }
             btreeCursors = null;
             buddyBtreeCursors = null;
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 
     private void searchNextCursor() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (currentCursor < numberOfTrees) {
-            btreeCursors[currentCursor].reset();
+            btreeCursors[currentCursor].close();
             btreeAccessors[currentCursor].search(btreeCursors[currentCursor], btreeRangePredicate);
         }
     }
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
                             && !buddyBtreeBloomFilters[i].contains(buddyBTreeTuple, hashes)) {
                         continue;
                     }
-                    buddyBtreeCursors[i].reset();
+                    buddyBtreeCursors[i].close();
                     buddyBtreeRangePredicate.setHighKey(buddyBTreeTuple, true);
                     buddyBtreeRangePredicate.setLowKey(buddyBTreeTuple, true);
                     buddyBtreeAccessors[i].search(buddyBtreeCursors[i], buddyBtreeRangePredicate);
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
                             killerTupleFound = true;
                         }
                     } finally {
-                        buddyBtreeCursors[i].close();
+                        buddyBtreeCursors[i].destroy();
                     }
                 }
                 if (!killerTupleFound) {
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
                     return true;
                 }
             }
-            btreeCursors[currentCursor].close();
+            btreeCursors[currentCursor].destroy();
             currentCursor++;
             searchNextCursor();
         }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeWithBuddySortedCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeWithBuddySortedCursor.java
index 8fd3a83..d889622 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeWithBuddySortedCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/impls/LSMBTreeWithBuddySortedCursor.java
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
             throws HyracksDataException {
         super(opCtx);
         this.buddyBtreeTuple = new PermutingTupleReference(buddyBTreeFields);
-        reset();
+        close();
     }
 
     public ILSMIndexOperationContext getOpCtx() {
@@ -47,12 +47,12 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void reset() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
         depletedBtreeCursors = new boolean[numberOfTrees];
         foundNext = false;
         try {
             for (int i = 0; i < numberOfTrees; i++) {
-                btreeCursors[i].reset();
+                btreeCursors[i].close();
                 btreeAccessors[i].search(btreeCursors[i], btreeRangePredicate);
                 if (btreeCursors[i].hasNext()) {
                     btreeCursors[i].next();
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
             boolean killed = false;
             buddyBtreeTuple.reset(frameTuple);
             for (int i = 0; i < foundIn; i++) {
-                buddyBtreeCursors[i].reset();
+                buddyBtreeCursors[i].close();
                 buddyBtreeRangePredicate.setHighKey(buddyBtreeTuple, true);
                 btreeRangePredicate.setLowKey(buddyBtreeTuple, true);
                 btreeAccessors[i].search(btreeCursors[i], btreeRangePredicate);
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
                         break;
                     }
                 } finally {
-                    btreeCursors[i].close();
+                    btreeCursors[i].destroy();
                 }
             }
             if (!killed) {
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
         depletedBtreeCursors = new boolean[numberOfTrees];
         foundNext = false;
         for (int i = 0; i < numberOfTrees; i++) {
-            btreeCursors[i].reset();
+            btreeCursors[i].close();
             btreeAccessors[i].search(btreeCursors[i], btreeRangePredicate);
             if (btreeCursors[i].hasNext()) {
                 btreeCursors[i].next();
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/AbstractLSMIndex.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/AbstractLSMIndex.java
index 6115ba6..e9f410d 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/AbstractLSMIndex.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/AbstractLSMIndex.java
@@ -293,7 +293,6 @@
 
     @Override
     public void getOperationalComponents(ILSMIndexOperationContext ctx) throws HyracksDataException {
-        List<ILSMDiskComponent> immutableComponents = diskComponents;
         List<ILSMComponent> operationalComponents = ctx.getComponentHolder();
         int cmc = currentMutableComponentId.get();
         ctx.setCurrentMutableComponentId(cmc);
@@ -309,14 +308,15 @@
                 break;
             case INSERT:
                 addOperationalMutableComponents(operationalComponents, true);
-                operationalComponents.addAll(immutableComponents);
+                operationalComponents.addAll(diskComponents);
                 break;
             case SEARCH:
                 if (memoryComponentsAllocated) {
                     addOperationalMutableComponents(operationalComponents, false);
                 }
                 if (filterManager != null) {
-                    for (ILSMComponent c : immutableComponents) {
+                    for (int i = 0; i < diskComponents.size(); i++) {
+                        ILSMComponent c = diskComponents.get(i);
                         if (c.getLSMComponentFilter().satisfy(
                                 ((AbstractSearchPredicate) ctx.getSearchPredicate()).getMinFilterTuple(),
                                 ((AbstractSearchPredicate) ctx.getSearchPredicate()).getMaxFilterTuple(),
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@
                         }
                     }
                 } else {
-                    operationalComponents.addAll(immutableComponents);
+                    operationalComponents.addAll(diskComponents);
                 }
 
                 break;
@@ -334,13 +334,13 @@
                 operationalComponents.addAll(ctx.getComponentsToBeMerged());
                 break;
             case FULL_MERGE:
-                operationalComponents.addAll(immutableComponents);
+                operationalComponents.addAll(diskComponents);
                 break;
             case REPLICATE:
                 operationalComponents.addAll(ctx.getComponentsToBeReplicated());
                 break;
             case DISK_COMPONENT_SCAN:
-                operationalComponents.addAll(immutableComponents);
+                operationalComponents.addAll(diskComponents);
                 break;
             default:
                 throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Operation " + ctx.getOperation() + " not supported.");
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/LSMIndexSearchCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/LSMIndexSearchCursor.java
index e37669e..2ba8a88 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/LSMIndexSearchCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/LSMIndexSearchCursor.java
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
 import org.apache.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.io.ArrayTupleBuilder;
 import org.apache.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.accessors.ITupleReference;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.ILSMComponent;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.ILSMComponentFilter;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.ILSMHarness;
@@ -34,9 +33,8 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.ILSMTreeTupleReference;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.MultiComparator;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.buffercache.IBufferCache;
 
-public abstract class LSMIndexSearchCursor implements ITreeIndexCursor {
+public abstract class LSMIndexSearchCursor implements IIndexCursor {
     protected static final int SWITCH_COMPONENT_CYCLE = 100;
     protected final ILSMIndexOperationContext opCtx;
     protected final boolean returnDeletedTuples;
@@ -107,7 +105,7 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void reset() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
         hasNextCallCount = 0;
         switchPossible = true;
         outputElement = null;
@@ -122,7 +120,7 @@
 
             if (rangeCursors != null) {
                 for (int i = 0; i < rangeCursors.length; i++) {
-                    rangeCursors[i].reset();
+                    rangeCursors[i].close();
                 }
             }
             rangeCursors = null;
@@ -147,7 +145,7 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void destroy() throws HyracksDataException {
         try {
             if (outputPriorityQueue != null) {
                 outputPriorityQueue.clear();
@@ -155,7 +153,7 @@
             if (rangeCursors != null) {
                 for (int i = 0; i < rangeCursors.length; i++) {
                     if (rangeCursors[i] != null) {
-                        rangeCursors[i].close();
+                        rangeCursors[i].destroy();
                     }
                 }
                 rangeCursors = null;
@@ -168,16 +166,6 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void setBufferCache(IBufferCache bufferCache) {
-        // do nothing
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void setFileId(int fileId) {
-        // do nothing
-    }
-
-    @Override
     public ITupleReference getTuple() {
         return outputElement.getTuple();
     }
@@ -202,7 +190,7 @@
             outputPriorityQueue.offer(e);
             return;
         }
-        rangeCursors[cursorIndex].close();
+        rangeCursors[cursorIndex].destroy();
         if (cursorIndex == 0) {
             includeMutableComponent = false;
         }
@@ -257,11 +245,6 @@
         }
     }
 
-    @Override
-    public boolean isExclusiveLatchNodes() {
-        return false;
-    }
-
     public class PriorityQueueElement {
         private ITupleReference tuple;
         private int cursorIndex;
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/LSMTreeIndexAccessor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/LSMTreeIndexAccessor.java
index c0fd443..4770d7c 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/LSMTreeIndexAccessor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/LSMTreeIndexAccessor.java
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.io.FrameTupleAccessor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.accessors.FrameTupleReference;
 import org.apache.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.accessors.ITupleReference;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.ophelpers.IndexOperation;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.IFrameOperationCallback;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.IFrameTupleProcessor;
@@ -45,7 +44,7 @@
 public class LSMTreeIndexAccessor implements ILSMIndexAccessor {
     @FunctionalInterface
     public interface ICursorFactory {
-        ITreeIndexCursor create(ILSMIndexOperationContext ctx);
+        IIndexCursor create(ILSMIndexOperationContext ctx);
     }
 
     protected final ILSMHarness lsmHarness;
@@ -201,7 +200,7 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public ITreeIndexCursor createSearchCursor(boolean exclusive) {
+    public IIndexCursor createSearchCursor(boolean exclusive) {
         return cursorFactory.create(ctx);
     }
 
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndex.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndex.java
index 01f0f1a..05561f2 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndex.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndex.java
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@
                 numBTreeTuples = IntegerPointable.getInteger(countTuple.getFieldData(0), countTuple.getFieldStart(0));
             }
         } finally {
-            btreeCountingCursor.close();
+            btreeCountingCursor.destroy();
         }
 
         ILSMDiskComponentBulkLoader componentBulkLoader =
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@
                 componentBulkLoader.delete(deletedKeysScanCursor.getTuple());
             }
         } finally {
-            deletedKeysScanCursor.close();
+            deletedKeysScanCursor.destroy();
         }
 
         // Scan the in-memory inverted index
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@
                 componentBulkLoader.add(scanCursor.getTuple());
             }
         } finally {
-            scanCursor.close();
+            scanCursor.destroy();
         }
         if (component.getLSMComponentFilter() != null) {
             List<ITupleReference> filterTuples = new ArrayList<>();
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@
                     componentBulkLoader.delete(tuple);
                 }
             } finally {
-                btreeCursor.close();
+                btreeCursor.destroy();
             }
         } else {
             componentBulkLoader = component.createBulkLoader(1.0f, false, 0L, false, false, false);
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@
                 componentBulkLoader.add(tuple);
             }
         } finally {
-            cursor.close();
+            cursor.destroy();
         }
         if (component.getLSMComponentFilter() != null) {
             List<ITupleReference> filterTuples = new ArrayList<>();
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndexRangeSearchCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndexRangeSearchCursor.java
index d565b9a..4afccef 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndexRangeSearchCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndexRangeSearchCursor.java
@@ -106,14 +106,14 @@
             if (bloomFilters[i] != null && bloomFilters[i].contains(keysOnlyTuple, hashes)) {
                 continue;
             }
-            deletedKeysBTreeCursors[i].reset();
+            deletedKeysBTreeCursors[i].close();
             try {
                 deletedKeysBTreeAccessors.get(i).search(deletedKeysBTreeCursors[i], keySearchPred);
                 if (deletedKeysBTreeCursors[i].hasNext()) {
                     return true;
                 }
             } finally {
-                deletedKeysBTreeCursors[i].close();
+                deletedKeysBTreeCursors[i].destroy();
             }
         }
         return false;
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndexSearchCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndexSearchCursor.java
index c214a2c..14ea6e1 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndexSearchCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/impls/LSMInvertedIndexSearchCursor.java
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
         keySearchPred.setLowKey(key, true);
         keySearchPred.setHighKey(key, true);
         for (int i = 0; i < accessorIndex; i++) {
-            deletedKeysBTreeCursors[i].reset();
+            deletedKeysBTreeCursors[i].close();
             if (deletedKeysBTreeBloomFilters[i] != null && !deletedKeysBTreeBloomFilters[i].contains(key, hashes)) {
                 continue;
             }
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
                     return true;
                 }
             } finally {
-                deletedKeysBTreeCursors[i].close();
+                deletedKeysBTreeCursors[i].destroy();
             }
         }
         return false;
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
             if (nextValidTuple()) {
                 return true;
             }
-            currentCursor.close();
+            currentCursor.destroy();
             accessorIndex++;
         }
         while (accessorIndex < indexAccessors.size()) {
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
                 return true;
             }
             // Close as we go to release resources.
-            currentCursor.close();
+            currentCursor.destroy();
             accessorIndex++;
         }
         return false;
@@ -172,15 +172,15 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
-        reset();
+    public void destroy() throws HyracksDataException {
+        close();
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void reset() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
         try {
             if (currentCursor != null) {
-                currentCursor.close();
+                currentCursor.destroy();
                 currentCursor = null;
             }
             accessorIndex = 0;
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/inmemory/InMemoryInvertedListCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/inmemory/InMemoryInvertedListCursor.java
index 7078c4b..7bf5322 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/inmemory/InMemoryInvertedListCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/inmemory/InMemoryInvertedListCursor.java
@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@
         tokenTuple.reset(tokenTupleBuilder.getFieldEndOffsets(), tokenTupleBuilder.getByteArray());
         btreeSearchTuple.reset();
         btreeSearchTuple.addTuple(tokenTuple);
-        btreeCursor.reset();
-        countingCursor.reset();
+        btreeCursor.close();
+        countingCursor.close();
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
     @Override
     public void unpinPages() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (cursorNeedsClose) {
-            btreeCursor.close();
+            btreeCursor.destroy();
             cursorNeedsClose = false;
         }
     }
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
                 e.printStackTrace();
             } finally {
                 try {
-                    countingCursor.close();
+                    countingCursor.destroy();
                 } catch (HyracksDataException e) {
                     e.printStackTrace();
                 }
@@ -197,8 +197,8 @@
         try {
             containsKey = btreeCursor.hasNext();
         } finally {
+            btreeCursor.destroy();
             btreeCursor.close();
-            btreeCursor.reset();
             btreeSearchTuple.removeLastTuple();
         }
         return containsKey;
@@ -219,8 +219,8 @@
                 strBuilder.append(o.toString() + " ");
             }
         } finally {
+            btreeCursor.destroy();
             btreeCursor.close();
-            btreeCursor.reset();
         }
         btreeAccessor.search(btreeCursor, btreePred);
         return strBuilder.toString();
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndex.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndex.java
index 5301fa1..8db298d 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndex.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndex.java
@@ -205,8 +205,8 @@
                 listCursor.reset(0, 0, 0, 0);
             }
         } finally {
+            ctx.getBtreeCursor().destroy();
             ctx.getBtreeCursor().close();
-            ctx.getBtreeCursor().reset();
         }
     }
 
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@
                 }
             }
         } finally {
-            btreeCursor.close();
+            btreeCursor.destroy();
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexRangeSearchCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexRangeSearchCursor.java
index b2aff3a..632d739 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexRangeSearchCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexRangeSearchCursor.java
@@ -109,21 +109,21 @@
     }
 
     @Override
+    public void destroy() throws HyracksDataException {
+        if (unpinNeeded) {
+            invListCursor.unpinPages();
+            unpinNeeded = false;
+        }
+        btreeCursor.destroy();
+    }
+
+    @Override
     public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (unpinNeeded) {
             invListCursor.unpinPages();
             unpinNeeded = false;
         }
-        btreeCursor.close();
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void reset() throws HyracksDataException {
-        if (unpinNeeded) {
-            invListCursor.unpinPages();
-            unpinNeeded = false;
-        }
-        btreeCursor.close();
+        btreeCursor.destroy();
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexSearchCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexSearchCursor.java
index af5a187..1aab6e1 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexSearchCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexSearchCursor.java
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void reset() {
+    public void close() {
         currentBufferIndex = 0;
         tupleIndex = 0;
         invIndexSearcher.reset();
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void destroy() throws HyracksDataException {
         currentBufferIndex = 0;
         tupleIndex = 0;
         resultBuffers = null;
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/PartitionedOnDiskInvertedIndex.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/PartitionedOnDiskInvertedIndex.java
index a33d6d3..01e0684 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/PartitionedOnDiskInvertedIndex.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/PartitionedOnDiskInvertedIndex.java
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@
                 tokenExists = true;
             }
         } finally {
+            ctx.getBtreeCursor().destroy();
             ctx.getBtreeCursor().close();
-            ctx.getBtreeCursor().reset();
         }
         return tokenExists;
     }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/ExternalRTree.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/ExternalRTree.java
index 6f61935..e23a83e 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/ExternalRTree.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/ExternalRTree.java
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.btree.impls.BTree;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.btree.impls.BTree.BTreeBulkLoader;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.IIndexOperationContext;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexFrameFactory;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITwoPCIndexBulkLoader;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.NoOpOperationCallback;
@@ -67,8 +66,6 @@
  * This is an lsm r-tree that does not have memory component and is modified
  * only by bulk loading and addition of disk components as of this point, it is
  * intended for use with external dataset indexes only.
- *
- * @author alamouda
  */
 public class ExternalRTree extends LSMRTree implements ITwoPCIndex {
 
@@ -301,7 +298,7 @@
                     builder.add(tuple);
                 }
             } finally {
-                btreeCursor.close();
+                btreeCursor.destroy();
                 builder.end();
             }
             btreeBulkLoader.end();
@@ -315,7 +312,7 @@
                 bulkLoader.add(frameTuple);
             }
         } finally {
-            cursor.close();
+            cursor.destroy();
         }
         bulkLoader.end();
         return mergedComponent;
@@ -584,7 +581,7 @@
         ILSMIndexOperationContext rctx = createOpContext(NoOpOperationCallback.INSTANCE, -1);
         rctx.setOperation(IndexOperation.MERGE);
         List<ILSMComponent> mergingComponents = ctx.getComponentHolder();
-        ITreeIndexCursor cursor = new LSMRTreeSortedCursor(rctx, linearizer, buddyBTreeFields);
+        LSMRTreeSortedCursor cursor = new LSMRTreeSortedCursor(rctx, linearizer, buddyBTreeFields);
         LSMComponentFileReferences relMergeFileRefs =
                 getMergeFileReferences((ILSMDiskComponent) mergingComponents.get(0),
                         (ILSMDiskComponent) mergingComponents.get(mergingComponents.size() - 1));
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTree.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTree.java
index 9712b7c..123b38d 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTree.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTree.java
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
                 numBTreeTuples = IntegerPointable.getInteger(countTuple.getFieldData(0), countTuple.getFieldStart(0));
             }
         } finally {
-            btreeCountingCursor.close();
+            btreeCountingCursor.destroy();
         }
 
         ILSMDiskComponentBulkLoader componentBulkLoader =
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
                 rTreeTupleSorter.insertTupleEntry(rtreeScanCursor.getPageId(), rtreeScanCursor.getTupleOffset());
             }
         } finally {
-            rtreeScanCursor.close();
+            rtreeScanCursor.destroy();
         }
         rTreeTupleSorter.sort();
 
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
                     componentBulkLoader.add(frameTuple);
                 }
             } finally {
-                cursor.close();
+                cursor.destroy();
             }
         }
 
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@
                 componentBulkLoader.delete(frameTuple);
             }
         } finally {
-            btreeScanCursor.close();
+            btreeScanCursor.destroy();
         }
 
         if (component.getLSMComponentFilter() != null) {
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@
                     componentBulkLoader.delete(tuple);
                 }
             } finally {
-                btreeCursor.close();
+                btreeCursor.destroy();
             }
         } else {
             //no buddy-btree needed
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@
                 componentBulkLoader.add(frameTuple);
             }
         } finally {
-            cursor.close();
+            cursor.destroy();
         }
 
         if (mergedComponent.getLSMComponentFilter() != null) {
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@
     @Override
     protected ILSMIOOperation createMergeOperation(AbstractLSMIndexOperationContext opCtx,
             LSMComponentFileReferences mergeFileRefs, ILSMIOOperationCallback callback) throws HyracksDataException {
-        ITreeIndexCursor cursor = new LSMRTreeSortedCursor(opCtx, linearizer, buddyBTreeFields);
+        LSMRTreeSortedCursor cursor = new LSMRTreeSortedCursor(opCtx, linearizer, buddyBTreeFields);
         ILSMIndexAccessor accessor = new LSMRTreeAccessor(getHarness(), opCtx, buddyBTreeFields);
         return new LSMRTreeMergeOperation(accessor, cursor, mergeFileRefs.getInsertIndexFileReference(),
                 mergeFileRefs.getDeleteIndexFileReference(), mergeFileRefs.getBloomFilterFileReference(), callback,
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeAbstractCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeAbstractCursor.java
index 2d2b548..8baa3b5 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeAbstractCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeAbstractCursor.java
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.btree.impls.BTree.BTreeAccessor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.btree.impls.BTreeRangeSearchCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.btree.impls.RangePredicate;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.NoOpIndexAccessParameters;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.NoOpOperationCallback;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.ILSMComponent;
@@ -42,11 +41,11 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.impls.RTreeSearchCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.impls.SearchPredicate;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.ICursorInitialState;
+import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.ISearchPredicate;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.MultiComparator;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.buffercache.IBufferCache;
 
-public abstract class LSMRTreeAbstractCursor implements ITreeIndexCursor {
+public abstract class LSMRTreeAbstractCursor implements IIndexCursor {
 
     protected boolean open;
     protected RTreeSearchCursor[] rtreeCursors;
@@ -111,7 +110,7 @@
                             (IBTreeLeafFrame) lsmInitialState.getBTreeLeafFrameFactory().createFrame(), false);
                 } else {
                     //re-use
-                    btreeCursors[i].reset();
+                    btreeCursors[i].close();
                 }
                 rtree = ((LSMRTreeMemoryComponent) component).getIndex();
                 btree = ((LSMRTreeMemoryComponent) component).getBuddyIndex();
@@ -122,8 +121,8 @@
                     btreeCursors[i] = new BTreeRangeSearchCursor(
                             (IBTreeLeafFrame) lsmInitialState.getBTreeLeafFrameFactory().createFrame(), false);
                 } else {
-                    // reset
-                    btreeCursors[i].reset();
+                    // close
+                    btreeCursors[i].close();
                 }
                 rtree = ((LSMRTreeDiskComponent) component).getIndex();
                 btree = ((LSMRTreeDiskComponent) component).getBuddyIndex();
@@ -134,7 +133,7 @@
                         (IRTreeInteriorFrame) lsmInitialState.getRTreeInteriorFrameFactory().createFrame(),
                         (IRTreeLeafFrame) lsmInitialState.getRTreeLeafFrameFactory().createFrame());
             } else {
-                rtreeCursors[i].reset();
+                rtreeCursors[i].close();
             }
             if (rtreeAccessors[i] == null) {
                 rtreeAccessors[i] = rtree.createAccessor(NoOpIndexAccessParameters.INSTANCE);
@@ -153,7 +152,7 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void destroy() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (!open) {
             return;
         }
@@ -161,8 +160,8 @@
         try {
             if (rtreeCursors != null && btreeCursors != null) {
                 for (int i = 0; i < numberOfTrees; i++) {
-                    rtreeCursors[i].close();
-                    btreeCursors[i].close();
+                    rtreeCursors[i].destroy();
+                    btreeCursors[i].destroy();
                 }
             }
             rtreeCursors = null;
@@ -175,24 +174,10 @@
         open = false;
     }
 
-    @Override
-    public void setBufferCache(IBufferCache bufferCache) {
-        // do nothing
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void setFileId(int fileId) {
-        // do nothing
-    }
 
     @Override
     public ITupleReference getTuple() {
         return frameTuple;
     }
 
-    @Override
-    public boolean isExclusiveLatchNodes() {
-        return false;
-    }
-
 }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeMergeOperation.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeMergeOperation.java
index 83872cf..572ff01 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeMergeOperation.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeMergeOperation.java
@@ -19,16 +19,16 @@
 package org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.rtree.impls;
 
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.io.FileReference;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.ILSMIOOperationCallback;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.ILSMIndexAccessor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.impls.MergeOperation;
+import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexCursor;
 
 public class LSMRTreeMergeOperation extends MergeOperation {
     private final FileReference btreeMergeTarget;
     private final FileReference bloomFilterMergeTarget;
 
-    public LSMRTreeMergeOperation(ILSMIndexAccessor accessor, ITreeIndexCursor cursor, FileReference target,
+    public LSMRTreeMergeOperation(ILSMIndexAccessor accessor, IIndexCursor cursor, FileReference target,
             FileReference btreeMergeTarget, FileReference bloomFilterMergeTarget, ILSMIOOperationCallback callback,
             String indexIdentifier) {
         super(accessor, target, callback, indexIdentifier, cursor);
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeSearchCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeSearchCursor.java
index 06c39db..0edf22f 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeSearchCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeSearchCursor.java
@@ -39,13 +39,13 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
-        super.close();
+    public void destroy() throws HyracksDataException {
+        super.destroy();
         currentCursor = 0;
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void reset() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (!open) {
             return;
         }
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@
         foundNext = false;
         try {
             for (int i = 0; i < numberOfTrees; i++) {
-                rtreeCursors[i].close();
-                btreeCursors[i].close();
+                rtreeCursors[i].destroy();
+                btreeCursors[i].destroy();
             }
             rtreeCursors = null;
             btreeCursors = null;
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
 
     private void searchNextCursor() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (currentCursor < numberOfTrees) {
-            rtreeCursors[currentCursor].reset();
+            rtreeCursors[currentCursor].close();
             rtreeAccessors[currentCursor].search(rtreeCursors[currentCursor], rtreeSearchPredicate);
         }
     }
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
                     if (bloomFilters[i] != null && bloomFilters[i].contains(btreeTuple, hashes)) {
                         continue;
                     }
-                    btreeCursors[i].reset();
+                    btreeCursors[i].close();
                     btreeRangePredicate.setHighKey(btreeTuple, true);
                     btreeRangePredicate.setLowKey(btreeTuple, true);
                     btreeAccessors[i].search(btreeCursors[i], btreeRangePredicate);
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
                             killerTupleFound = true;
                         }
                     } finally {
-                        btreeCursors[i].close();
+                        btreeCursors[i].destroy();
                     }
                 }
                 if (!killerTupleFound) {
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
                     return true;
                 }
             }
-            rtreeCursors[currentCursor].close();
+            rtreeCursors[currentCursor].destroy();
             currentCursor++;
             searchNextCursor();
         }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeSortedCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeSortedCursor.java
index e3f74d3..d66e882 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeSortedCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeSortedCursor.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
         super(opCtx);
         this.linearizeCmp = linearizer.createBinaryComparator();
         this.btreeTuple = new PermutingTupleReference(buddyBTreeFields);
-        reset();
+        close();
     }
 
     public ILSMIndexOperationContext getOpCtx() {
@@ -51,12 +51,12 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void reset() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
         depletedRtreeCursors = new boolean[numberOfTrees];
         foundNext = false;
         try {
             for (int i = 0; i < numberOfTrees; i++) {
-                rtreeCursors[i].reset();
+                rtreeCursors[i].close();
                 rtreeAccessors[i].search(rtreeCursors[i], rtreeSearchPredicate);
                 if (rtreeCursors[i].hasNext()) {
                     rtreeCursors[i].next();
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
             boolean killed = false;
             btreeTuple.reset(frameTuple);
             for (int i = 0; i < foundIn; i++) {
-                btreeCursors[i].reset();
+                btreeCursors[i].close();
                 btreeRangePredicate.setHighKey(btreeTuple, true);
                 btreeRangePredicate.setLowKey(btreeTuple, true);
                 btreeAccessors[i].search(btreeCursors[i], btreeRangePredicate);
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
                         break;
                     }
                 } finally {
-                    btreeCursors[i].close();
+                    btreeCursors[i].destroy();
                 }
             }
             if (!killed) {
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
         depletedRtreeCursors = new boolean[numberOfTrees];
         foundNext = false;
         for (int i = 0; i < numberOfTrees; i++) {
-            rtreeCursors[i].reset();
+            rtreeCursors[i].close();
             rtreeAccessors[i].search(rtreeCursors[i], rtreeSearchPredicate);
             if (rtreeCursors[i].hasNext()) {
                 rtreeCursors[i].next();
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuples.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuples.java
index 41e9b92..94d76f6 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuples.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuples.java
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.btree.impls.BTree.BTreeAccessor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.btree.impls.BTreeRangeSearchCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.btree.impls.RangePredicate;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexFrameFactory;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.NoOpIndexAccessParameters;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.api.IComponentFilterHelper;
@@ -116,7 +115,7 @@
                 rTreeTupleSorter.insertTupleEntry(rtreeScanCursor.getPageId(), rtreeScanCursor.getTupleOffset());
             }
         } finally {
-            rtreeScanCursor.close();
+            rtreeScanCursor.destroy();
         }
         if (!isEmpty) {
             rTreeTupleSorter.sort();
@@ -140,7 +139,7 @@
                 bTreeTupleSorter.insertTupleEntry(btreeScanCursor.getPageId(), btreeScanCursor.getTupleOffset());
             }
         } finally {
-            btreeScanCursor.close();
+            btreeScanCursor.destroy();
         }
         if (!isEmpty) {
             bTreeTupleSorter.sort();
@@ -158,7 +157,7 @@
                 componentBulkLoader.add(frameTuple);
             }
         } finally {
-            cursor.close();
+            cursor.destroy();
         }
 
         if (component.getLSMComponentFilter() != null) {
@@ -194,7 +193,7 @@
                 componentBulkLoader.add(frameTuple);
             }
         } finally {
-            cursor.close();
+            cursor.destroy();
         }
         if (component.getLSMComponentFilter() != null) {
             List<ITupleReference> filterTuples = new ArrayList<>();
@@ -234,7 +233,8 @@
         if (mergingComponents.get(mergingComponents.size() - 1) != diskComponents.get(diskComponents.size() - 1)) {
             returnDeletedTuples = true;
         }
-        ITreeIndexCursor cursor = new LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuplesSearchCursor(opCtx, returnDeletedTuples);
+        LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuplesSearchCursor cursor =
+                new LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuplesSearchCursor(opCtx, returnDeletedTuples);
         ILSMIndexAccessor accessor = new LSMTreeIndexAccessor(getHarness(), opCtx, cursorFactory);
         return new LSMRTreeMergeOperation(accessor, cursor, mergeFileRefs.getInsertIndexFileReference(), null, null,
                 callback, fileManager.getBaseDir().getAbsolutePath());
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuplesFlushCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuplesFlushCursor.java
index af9fef6..121bac1 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuplesFlushCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuplesFlushCursor.java
@@ -22,13 +22,12 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.IBinaryComparatorFactory;
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
 import org.apache.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.accessors.ITupleReference;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.ICursorInitialState;
+import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.ISearchPredicate;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.MultiComparator;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.buffercache.IBufferCache;
 
-public class LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuplesFlushCursor implements ITreeIndexCursor {
+public class LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuplesFlushCursor implements IIndexCursor {
     private final TreeTupleSorter rTreeTupleSorter;
     private final TreeTupleSorter bTreeTupleSorter;
     private final int[] comparatorFields;
@@ -130,11 +129,11 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void destroy() throws HyracksDataException {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void reset() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
 
     }
 
@@ -153,18 +152,4 @@
         return null;
     }
 
-    @Override
-    public void setBufferCache(IBufferCache bufferCache) {
-
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void setFileId(int fileId) {
-
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public boolean isExclusiveLatchNodes() {
-        return false;
-    }
 }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuplesSearchCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuplesSearchCursor.java
index 2520eac..7ae72a9 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuplesSearchCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuplesSearchCursor.java
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
 
     private void searchNextCursor() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (currentCursor < numMutableComponents) {
-            mutableRTreeCursors[currentCursor].reset();
+            mutableRTreeCursors[currentCursor].close();
             mutableRTreeAccessors[currentCursor].search(mutableRTreeCursors[currentCursor], rtreeSearchPredicate);
         }
     }
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
                         return true;
                     }
                 }
-                mutableRTreeCursors[currentCursor].close();
+                mutableRTreeCursors[currentCursor].destroy();
                 currentCursor++;
                 searchNextCursor();
             }
@@ -216,7 +216,6 @@
         return filter == null ? null : filter.getMaxTuple();
     }
 
-
     @Override
     public void next() throws HyracksDataException {
         foundNext = false;
@@ -228,7 +227,7 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void reset() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (!open) {
             return;
         }
@@ -236,27 +235,27 @@
         foundNext = false;
         if (includeMutableComponent) {
             for (int i = 0; i < numMutableComponents; i++) {
-                mutableRTreeCursors[i].reset();
-                btreeCursors[i].reset();
+                mutableRTreeCursors[i].close();
+                btreeCursors[i].close();
             }
         }
-        super.reset();
+        super.close();
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void destroy() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (!open) {
             return;
         }
         if (includeMutableComponent) {
             for (int i = 0; i < numMutableComponents; i++) {
-                mutableRTreeCursors[i].close();
-                btreeCursors[i].close();
+                mutableRTreeCursors[i].destroy();
+                btreeCursors[i].destroy();
             }
         }
         currentCursor = 0;
         open = false;
-        super.close();
+        super.destroy();
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -267,7 +266,7 @@
 
     private boolean searchMemBTrees(ITupleReference tuple, int lastBTreeToSearch) throws HyracksDataException {
         for (int i = 0; i < lastBTreeToSearch; i++) {
-            btreeCursors[i].reset();
+            btreeCursors[i].close();
             btreeRangePredicate.setHighKey(tuple, true);
             btreeRangePredicate.setLowKey(tuple, true);
             btreeAccessors[i].search(btreeCursors[i], btreeRangePredicate);
@@ -276,7 +275,7 @@
                     return false;
                 }
             } finally {
-                btreeCursors[i].close();
+                btreeCursors[i].destroy();
             }
         }
         return true;
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/TreeTupleSorter.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/TreeTupleSorter.java
index cad1f74..787bd67 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/TreeTupleSorter.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/impls/TreeTupleSorter.java
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void reset() {
+    public void close() {
         numTuples = 0;
         currentTupleIndex = 0;
     }
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void destroy() throws HyracksDataException {
         // do nothing
     }
 
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/impls/RTreeSearchCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/impls/RTreeSearchCursor.java
index 4302c61..f9bc59a 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/impls/RTreeSearchCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-rtree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/impls/RTreeSearchCursor.java
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public void destroy() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (readLatched) {
             page.releaseReadLatch();
             bufferCache.unpin(page);
@@ -249,8 +249,8 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void reset() throws HyracksDataException {
-        close();
+    public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
+        destroy();
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/common/IIndexCursor.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/common/IIndexCursor.java
index cd16210..57775d6 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/common/IIndexCursor.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/common/IIndexCursor.java
@@ -22,6 +22,33 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
 import org.apache.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.accessors.ITupleReference;
 
+/**
+ * Represents an index cursor. The expected use
+ * cursor = new cursor();
+ * while (more predicates){
+ * -cursor.open(predicate);
+ * -while (cursor.hasNext()){
+ * --cursor.next()
+ * -}
+ * -cursor.close();
+ * }
+ * cursor.destroy();
+ * Each created cursor must have destroy called
+ * Each successfully opened cursor must have close called
+ *
+ * A cursor is a state machine that works as follows:
+ * The states are:
+ * <ul>
+ * <li>CLOSED</li>
+ * <li>OPENED</li>
+ * <li>DESTROYED</li>
+ * </ul>
+ * When a cursor object is created, it is in the CLOSED state.
+ * CLOSED: The only legal calls are open() --> OPENED, or destroy() --> DESTROYED
+ * OPENED: The only legal calls are hasNext(), next(), or close() --> CLOSED.
+ * DESTROYED: All calls are illegal.
+ * Cursors must enforce the cursor state machine
+ */
 public interface IIndexCursor {
     /**
      * Opens the cursor
@@ -49,21 +76,21 @@
     void next() throws HyracksDataException;
 
     /**
-     * Closes the cursor
+     * Destroys the cursor allowing for release of resources.
+     * The cursor can't be used anymore after this call.
+     *
+     * @throws HyracksDataException
+     */
+    void destroy() throws HyracksDataException;
+
+    /**
+     * Close the cursor when done with it after a successful open
      *
      * @throws HyracksDataException
      */
     void close() throws HyracksDataException;
 
     /**
-     * Reset the cursor to be reused
-     *
-     * @throws HyracksDataException
-     * @throws IndexException
-     */
-    void reset() throws HyracksDataException;
-
-    /**
      * @return the tuple pointed to by the cursor
      */
     ITupleReference getTuple();
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/AbstractSearchOperationCallbackTest.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/AbstractSearchOperationCallbackTest.java
index 0323d1b..368430c 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/AbstractSearchOperationCallbackTest.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/AbstractSearchOperationCallbackTest.java
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
                 // consume tuples [153, 300]
                 consumeIntTupleRange(153, 300, false, -1);
 
-                cursor.close();
+                cursor.destroy();
             } finally {
                 lock.unlock();
             }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/OrderedIndexExamplesTest.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/OrderedIndexExamplesTest.java
index 2a7b978..9ca3b59 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/OrderedIndexExamplesTest.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/OrderedIndexExamplesTest.java
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.TestOperationCallback;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndex;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexAccessor;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.IndexAccessParameters;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.TreeIndexDiskOrderScanCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexAccessor;
@@ -773,7 +772,7 @@
                 }
             }
         } finally {
-            scanCursor.close();
+            scanCursor.destroy();
         }
     }
 
@@ -796,7 +795,7 @@
                     }
                 }
             } finally {
-                diskOrderCursor.close();
+                diskOrderCursor.destroy();
             }
         } catch (UnsupportedOperationException e) {
             // Ignore exception because some indexes, e.g. the LSMBTree, don't
@@ -821,7 +820,7 @@
             String highKeyString = TupleUtils.printTuple(highKey, fieldSerdes);
             LOGGER.info("Range-Search in: [ " + lowKeyString + ", " + highKeyString + "]");
         }
-        ITreeIndexCursor rangeCursor = (ITreeIndexCursor) indexAccessor.createSearchCursor(false);
+        IIndexCursor rangeCursor = indexAccessor.createSearchCursor(false);
         MultiComparator lowKeySearchCmp = BTreeUtils.getSearchMultiComparator(cmpFactories, lowKey);
         MultiComparator highKeySearchCmp = BTreeUtils.getSearchMultiComparator(cmpFactories, highKey);
         RangePredicate rangePred;
@@ -842,7 +841,7 @@
                 }
             }
         } finally {
-            rangeCursor.close();
+            rangeCursor.destroy();
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/OrderedIndexTestUtils.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/OrderedIndexTestUtils.java
index 665178c..4a9e0ed 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/OrderedIndexTestUtils.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/OrderedIndexTestUtils.java
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.CheckTuple;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.IIndexTestContext;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.TreeIndexTestUtils;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.ISearchPredicate;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.MultiComparator;
@@ -137,7 +136,7 @@
                         + "\nActual  : " + actualCount);
             }
         } finally {
-            searchCursor.close();
+            searchCursor.destroy();
         }
     }
 
@@ -180,7 +179,7 @@
                     fail("Point search returned more than one answer.");
                 }
             } finally {
-                searchCursor.close();
+                searchCursor.destroy();
             }
         }
     }
@@ -477,7 +476,7 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void checkExpectedResults(ITreeIndexCursor cursor, Collection checkTuples,
+    public void checkExpectedResults(IIndexCursor cursor, Collection checkTuples,
             ISerializerDeserializer[] fieldSerdes, int keyFieldCount, Iterator<CheckTuple> checkIter) throws Exception {
         int actualCount = 0;
         try {
@@ -496,7 +495,7 @@
                         + "\nActual  : " + actualCount);
             }
         } finally {
-            cursor.close();
+            cursor.destroy();
         }
 
     }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/AbstractIndexTestWorker.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/AbstractIndexTestWorker.java
index 0291f41..5248a22 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/AbstractIndexTestWorker.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/AbstractIndexTestWorker.java
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
                 cursor.next();
             }
         } finally {
-            cursor.close();
+            cursor.destroy();
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/TreeIndexTestUtils.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/TreeIndexTestUtils.java
index 9304adf..43258dd 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/TreeIndexTestUtils.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/TreeIndexTestUtils.java
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@
 
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple.MutablePair;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple.Pair;
-import org.apache.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.*;
+import org.apache.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.IBinaryComparator;
+import org.apache.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.ISerializerDeserializer;
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.exceptions.ErrorCode;
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
 import org.apache.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.io.ArrayTupleBuilder;
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexAccessor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexBulkLoader;
+import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.ISearchPredicate;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.Level;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
@@ -54,7 +56,7 @@
 
     protected abstract ISearchPredicate createNullSearchPredicate();
 
-    public abstract void checkExpectedResults(ITreeIndexCursor cursor, Collection checkTuples,
+    public abstract void checkExpectedResults(IIndexCursor cursor, Collection checkTuples,
             ISerializerDeserializer[] fieldSerdes, int keyFieldCount, Iterator<CheckTuple> checkIter) throws Exception;
 
     protected abstract CheckTuple createIntCheckTuple(int[] fieldValues, int numKeyFields);
@@ -120,7 +122,7 @@
         if (LOGGER.isInfoEnabled()) {
             LOGGER.info("Testing Scan.");
         }
-        ITreeIndexCursor scanCursor = (ITreeIndexCursor) ctx.getIndexAccessor().createSearchCursor(false);
+        IIndexCursor scanCursor = ctx.getIndexAccessor().createSearchCursor(false);
         ISearchPredicate nullPred = createNullSearchPredicate();
         ctx.getIndexAccessor().search(scanCursor, nullPred);
         Iterator<CheckTuple> checkIter = ctx.getCheckTuples().iterator();
@@ -157,7 +159,7 @@
                 }
             } finally {
                 try {
-                    diskOrderCursor.close();
+                    diskOrderCursor.destroy();
                 } catch (Exception ex) {
                     LOGGER.log(Level.WARN, "Error during scan cursor close", ex);
                 }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/AbstractRTreeExamplesTest.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/AbstractRTreeExamplesTest.java
index 4a31cd6..a36acf0 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/AbstractRTreeExamplesTest.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/AbstractRTreeExamplesTest.java
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.IPrimitiveValueProviderFactory;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndex;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexAccessor;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.IndexAccessParameters;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.NoOpIndexAccessParameters;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.TreeIndexDiskOrderScanCursor;
@@ -50,6 +49,7 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.util.RTreeUtils;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexAccessor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexBulkLoader;
+import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.MultiComparator;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
@@ -845,7 +845,7 @@
         if (LOGGER.isInfoEnabled()) {
             LOGGER.info("Scan:");
         }
-        ITreeIndexCursor scanCursor = (ITreeIndexCursor) indexAccessor.createSearchCursor(false);
+        IIndexCursor scanCursor = indexAccessor.createSearchCursor(false);
         SearchPredicate nullPred = new SearchPredicate(null, null);
         indexAccessor.search(scanCursor, nullPred);
         try {
@@ -858,7 +858,7 @@
                 }
             }
         } finally {
-            scanCursor.close();
+            scanCursor.destroy();
         }
     }
 
@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@
                     }
                 }
             } finally {
-                diskOrderCursor.close();
+                diskOrderCursor.destroy();
             }
         } catch (UnsupportedOperationException e) {
             // Ignore exception because some indexes, e.g. the LSMRTree, don't
@@ -905,7 +905,7 @@
             String kString = TupleUtils.printTuple(key, fieldSerdes);
             LOGGER.info("Range-Search using key: " + kString);
         }
-        ITreeIndexCursor rangeCursor = (ITreeIndexCursor) indexAccessor.createSearchCursor(false);
+        IIndexCursor rangeCursor = indexAccessor.createSearchCursor(false);
         MultiComparator cmp = RTreeUtils.getSearchMultiComparator(cmpFactories, key);
 
         SearchPredicate rangePred;
@@ -926,7 +926,7 @@
                 }
             }
         } finally {
-            rangeCursor.close();
+            rangeCursor.destroy();
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/RTreeTestUtils.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/RTreeTestUtils.java
index eb4ea56..300a1ff 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/RTreeTestUtils.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/RTreeTestUtils.java
@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.CheckTuple;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.IIndexTestContext;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.TreeIndexTestUtils;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.util.HashMultiSet;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.impls.SearchPredicate;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.util.RTreeUtils;
+import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.ISearchPredicate;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.MultiComparator;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
         AbstractRTreeTestContext ctx = (AbstractRTreeTestContext) ictx;
         MultiComparator cmp = RTreeUtils.getSearchMultiComparator(ctx.getComparatorFactories(), key);
 
-        ITreeIndexCursor searchCursor = (ITreeIndexCursor) ctx.getIndexAccessor().createSearchCursor(false);
+        IIndexCursor searchCursor = ctx.getIndexAccessor().createSearchCursor(false);
         SearchPredicate searchPred = new SearchPredicate(key, cmp);
         ctx.getIndexAccessor().search(searchCursor, searchPred);
 
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void checkExpectedResults(ITreeIndexCursor cursor, Collection checkTuples,
+    public void checkExpectedResults(IIndexCursor cursor, Collection checkTuples,
             ISerializerDeserializer[] fieldSerdes, int keyFieldCount, Iterator<CheckTuple> checkIter) throws Exception {
         int actualCount = 0;
         try {
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@
                         + "\nActual  : " + actualCount);
             }
         } finally {
-            cursor.close();
+            cursor.destroy();
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/BTreeSearchCursorTest.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/BTreeSearchCursorTest.java
index 2943ee9..6c234b7 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/BTreeSearchCursorTest.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/BTreeSearchCursorTest.java
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@
                 } catch (Exception e) {
                     e.printStackTrace();
                 } finally {
-                    rangeCursor.close();
+                    rangeCursor.destroy();
                 }
 
                 getExpectedResults(expectedResults, keys, lowKey, highKey, lowKeyInclusive, highKeyInclusive);
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/BTreeUpdateSearchTest.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/BTreeUpdateSearchTest.java
index bc297fa..f32bda3 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/BTreeUpdateSearchTest.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/BTreeUpdateSearchTest.java
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
         } catch (Exception e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
         } finally {
-            updateScanCursor.close();
+            updateScanCursor.destroy();
         }
 
         // Ordered scan to verify the values.
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@
         } catch (Exception e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
         } finally {
-            scanCursor.close();
+            scanCursor.destroy();
         }
         btree.deactivate();
         btree.destroy();
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/multithread/BTreeTestWorker.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/multithread/BTreeTestWorker.java
index 5866075..06a00e0 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/multithread/BTreeTestWorker.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/multithread/BTreeTestWorker.java
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
                 break;
 
             case POINT_SEARCH:
-                searchCursor.reset();
+                searchCursor.close();
                 rangePred.setLowKey(tuple, true);
                 rangePred.setHighKey(tuple, true);
                 accessor.search(searchCursor, rangePred);
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
                 break;
 
             case SCAN:
-                searchCursor.reset();
+                searchCursor.close();
                 rangePred.setLowKey(null, true);
                 rangePred.setHighKey(null, true);
                 accessor.search(searchCursor, rangePred);
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
                 break;
 
             case DISKORDER_SCAN:
-                diskOrderScanCursor.reset();
+                diskOrderScanCursor.close();
                 accessor.diskOrderScan(diskOrderScanCursor);
                 consumeCursorTuples(diskOrderScanCursor);
                 break;
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
                 cursor.next();
             }
         } finally {
-            cursor.close();
+            cursor.destroy();
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/LSMBTreeSearchOperationCallbackTest.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/LSMBTreeSearchOperationCallbackTest.java
index e108369..0904806 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/LSMBTreeSearchOperationCallbackTest.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/LSMBTreeSearchOperationCallbackTest.java
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
                 // consume tuples [152, 300]
                 consumeIntTupleRange(152, 300, false, -1);
 
-                cursor.close();
+                cursor.destroy();
             } finally {
                 lock.unlock();
             }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/LSMBTreeUpdateInPlaceScanDiskComponentsTest.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/LSMBTreeUpdateInPlaceScanDiskComponentsTest.java
index 790cddd..035ef98 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/LSMBTreeUpdateInPlaceScanDiskComponentsTest.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/LSMBTreeUpdateInPlaceScanDiskComponentsTest.java
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@
             }
             Assert.assertFalse(cursor.hasNext());
         } finally {
-            cursor.close();
+            cursor.destroy();
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/multithread/LSMBTreeTestWorker.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/multithread/LSMBTreeTestWorker.java
index ad0e13d..4c07dea 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/multithread/LSMBTreeTestWorker.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-btree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/btree/multithread/LSMBTreeTestWorker.java
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
                 break;
 
             case POINT_SEARCH:
-                searchCursor.reset();
+                searchCursor.close();
                 rangePred.setLowKey(tuple, true);
                 rangePred.setHighKey(tuple, true);
                 accessor.search(searchCursor, rangePred);
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
                 break;
 
             case SCAN:
-                searchCursor.reset();
+                searchCursor.close();
                 rangePred.setLowKey(null, true);
                 rangePred.setHighKey(null, true);
                 accessor.search(searchCursor, rangePred);
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/multithread/LSMInvertedIndexTestWorker.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/multithread/LSMInvertedIndexTestWorker.java
index ace93e0..ca06f6b 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/multithread/LSMInvertedIndexTestWorker.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/multithread/LSMInvertedIndexTestWorker.java
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
             }
 
             case POINT_SEARCH: {
-                searchCursor.reset();
+                searchCursor.close();
                 searchPred.setQueryTuple(tuple);
                 searchPred.setQueryFieldIndex(0);
                 try {
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
             }
 
             case SCAN: {
-                rangeSearchCursor.reset();
+                rangeSearchCursor.close();
                 accessor.rangeSearch(rangeSearchCursor, rangePred);
                 consumeCursorTuples(rangeSearchCursor);
                 break;
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/util/LSMInvertedIndexTestUtils.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/util/LSMInvertedIndexTestUtils.java
index 95c25d5..5902e62 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/util/LSMInvertedIndexTestUtils.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/util/LSMInvertedIndexTestUtils.java
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@
                 fail("Indexes do not match. Actual index contains too many entries.");
             }
         } finally {
-            invIndexCursor.close();
+            invIndexCursor.destroy();
         }
     }
 
@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@
                     }
                 }
             } finally {
-                resultCursor.close();
+                resultCursor.destroy();
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/multithread/AbstractLSMRTreeTestWorker.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/multithread/AbstractLSMRTreeTestWorker.java
index 22021bd..081ef7a45 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/multithread/AbstractLSMRTreeTestWorker.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/multithread/AbstractLSMRTreeTestWorker.java
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
                 cursor.next();
             }
         } finally {
-            cursor.close();
+            cursor.destroy();
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/multithread/LSMRTreeTestWorker.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/multithread/LSMRTreeTestWorker.java
index 6482565..2a14780 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/multithread/LSMRTreeTestWorker.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/multithread/LSMRTreeTestWorker.java
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.rtree.impls.LSMRTreeOpContext;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.impls.SearchPredicate;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndex;
+import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.MultiComparator;
 
 public class LSMRTreeTestWorker extends AbstractIndexTestWorker {
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@
     @Override
     public void performOp(ITupleReference tuple, TestOperation op) throws HyracksDataException {
         LSMRTreeAccessor accessor = (LSMRTreeAccessor) indexAccessor;
-        ITreeIndexCursor searchCursor = accessor.createSearchCursor(false);
+        IIndexCursor searchCursor = accessor.createSearchCursor(false);
         LSMRTreeOpContext concreteCtx = (LSMRTreeOpContext) accessor.getCtx();
         MultiComparator cmp = concreteCtx.getCurrentRTreeOpContext().getCmp();
         SearchPredicate rangePred = new SearchPredicate(tuple, cmp);
@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@
                 break;
 
             case SCAN:
-                searchCursor.reset();
+                searchCursor.close();
                 rangePred.setSearchKey(null);
                 accessor.search(searchCursor, rangePred);
                 consumeCursorTuples(searchCursor);
@@ -122,7 +123,7 @@
                 cursor.next();
             }
         } finally {
-            cursor.close();
+            cursor.destroy();
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/multithread/LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuplesTestWorker.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/multithread/LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuplesTestWorker.java
index f49fdbf..653677c 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/multithread/LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuplesTestWorker.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-rtree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/rtree/multithread/LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuplesTestWorker.java
@@ -23,13 +23,13 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.accessors.ITupleReference;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.TestOperationSelector;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.TestOperationSelector.TestOperation;
-import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.datagen.DataGenThread;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.common.impls.LSMTreeIndexAccessor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.rtree.impls.AbstractLSMRTree;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.rtree.impls.LSMRTreeOpContext;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.impls.SearchPredicate;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndex;
+import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.IIndexCursor;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.MultiComparator;
 
 public class LSMRTreeWithAntiMatterTuplesTestWorker extends AbstractLSMRTreeTestWorker {
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
     @Override
     public void performOp(ITupleReference tuple, TestOperation op) throws HyracksDataException {
         LSMTreeIndexAccessor accessor = (LSMTreeIndexAccessor) indexAccessor;
-        ITreeIndexCursor searchCursor = accessor.createSearchCursor(false);
+        IIndexCursor searchCursor = accessor.createSearchCursor(false);
         LSMRTreeOpContext concreteCtx = (LSMRTreeOpContext) accessor.getCtx();
         MultiComparator cmp = concreteCtx.getCurrentRTreeOpContext().getCmp();
         SearchPredicate rangePred = new SearchPredicate(tuple, cmp);
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
                 break;
 
             case SCAN:
-                searchCursor.reset();
+                searchCursor.close();
                 rangePred.setSearchKey(null);
                 accessor.search(searchCursor, rangePred);
                 consumeCursorTuples(searchCursor);
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/multithread/RTreeTestWorker.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/multithread/RTreeTestWorker.java
index cf2fa77..9d2d59e 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/multithread/RTreeTestWorker.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/multithread/RTreeTestWorker.java
@@ -69,14 +69,14 @@
                 break;
 
             case SCAN:
-                searchCursor.reset();
+                searchCursor.close();
                 rangePred.setSearchKey(null);
                 accessor.search(searchCursor, rangePred);
                 consumeCursorTuples(searchCursor);
                 break;
 
             case DISKORDER_SCAN:
-                diskOrderScanCursor.reset();
+                diskOrderScanCursor.close();
                 accessor.diskOrderScan(diskOrderScanCursor);
                 consumeCursorTuples(diskOrderScanCursor);
                 break;