diff --git a/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/.classpath b/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/.classpath
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f2cc5f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/.classpath
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<classpath>
+	<classpathentry kind="src" output="target/test-classes" path="src/test/java"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/JavaSE-1.6"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.maven.ide.eclipse.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
+</classpath>
diff --git a/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/.project b/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/.project
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ea7e36b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/.project
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+	<name>hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test</name>
+	<comment></comment>
+	<projects>
+	</projects>
+	<buildSpec>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Builder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+	</buildSpec>
+	<natures>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
+		<nature>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Nature</nature>
+	</natures>
+</projectDescription>
diff --git a/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs b/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..375e12e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#Fri May 20 19:34:07 PDT 2011
+eclipse.preferences.version=1
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.codegen.targetPlatform=1.6
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.compliance=1.6
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.problem.forbiddenReference=warning
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.source=1.6
diff --git a/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs b/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..99b89a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#Thu Jan 06 11:27:16 PST 2011
+activeProfiles=
+eclipse.preferences.version=1
+fullBuildGoals=process-test-resources
+includeModules=false
+resolveWorkspaceProjects=true
+resourceFilterGoals=process-resources resources\:testResources
+skipCompilerPlugin=true
+version=1
diff --git a/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/pom.xml b/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6673481a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks</groupId>
+  <artifactId>hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test</artifactId>
+  <version>0.1.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks</groupId>
+    <artifactId>hyracks-tests</artifactId>
+    <version>0.1.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.0.2</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <source>1.6</source>
+          <target>1.6</target>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+  <dependencies>
+  	<dependency>
+  		<groupId>junit</groupId>
+  		<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+  		<version>4.8.1</version>
+  		<type>jar</type>
+  		<scope>test</scope>
+  	</dependency>
+  	<dependency>
+  		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks</groupId>
+  		<artifactId>hyracks-control-nc</artifactId>
+  		<version>0.1.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  		<scope>compile</scope>
+  	</dependency>
+  	<dependency>
+  		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks</groupId>
+  		<artifactId>hyracks-storage-am-rtree</artifactId>
+  		<version>0.1.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  		<type>jar</type>
+  		<scope>compile</scope>
+  	</dependency>
+  	<dependency>
+  		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks</groupId>
+  		<artifactId>hyracks-test-support</artifactId>
+  		<version>0.1.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  		<type>jar</type>
+  		<scope>test</scope>
+  	</dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>
diff --git a/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/AbstractRTreeTest.java b/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/AbstractRTreeTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b2ab775
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/AbstractRTreeTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2009-2010 by The Regents of the University of California
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * you may obtain a copy of the License from
+ * 
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.rtree;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+import java.util.Date;
+
+import org.junit.AfterClass;
+
+public abstract class AbstractRTreeTest {
+
+    protected final static SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("ddMMyy-hhmmssSS");
+    protected final static String tmpDir = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir");
+    protected final static String sep = System.getProperty("file.separator");
+    protected final static String fileName = tmpDir + sep + simpleDateFormat.format(new Date());
+
+    protected void print(String str) {
+        System.err.print(str);
+    }
+
+    @AfterClass
+    public static void cleanup() throws Exception {
+        File f = new File(fileName);
+        f.deleteOnExit();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/RTreeTest.java b/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/RTreeTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..72c3f38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/RTreeTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,570 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2009-2010 by The Regents of the University of California
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * you may obtain a copy of the License from
+ * 
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.rtree;
+
+import java.io.DataOutput;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.util.Random;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.comm.IFrameTupleAccessor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.context.IHyracksStageletContext;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.IBinaryComparator;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.ISerializerDeserializer;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.ITypeTrait;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.RecordDescriptor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.TypeTrait;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.io.FileReference;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.io.ArrayTupleBuilder;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.io.FrameTupleAccessor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.io.FrameTupleAppender;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.accessors.FrameTupleReference;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.accessors.ITupleReference;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.comparators.DoubleBinaryComparatorFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.marshalling.DoubleSerializerDeserializer;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.marshalling.IntegerSerializerDeserializer;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.IFreePageManager;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexFrameFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexMetaDataFrame;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexMetaDataFrameFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.TreeIndexException;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.frames.LIFOMetaDataFrameFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.freepage.LinkedListFreePageManager;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.impls.TreeDiskOrderScanCursor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.ophelpers.IndexOp;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.ophelpers.MultiComparator;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.utility.TreeIndexStats;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.utility.TreeIndexStatsGatherer;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.api.IRTreeFrame;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.frames.RTreeNSMInteriorFrameFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.frames.RTreeNSMLeafFrameFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.impls.RTree;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.impls.RTreeOpContext;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.tuples.RTreeTypeAwareTupleWriterFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.common.buffercache.IBufferCache;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.common.file.IFileMapProvider;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.test.support.TestStorageManagerComponentHolder;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.test.support.TestUtils;
+
+public class RTreeTest extends AbstractRTreeTest {
+
+    private static final int PAGE_SIZE = 256;
+    private static final int NUM_PAGES = 10;
+    private static final int MAX_OPEN_FILES = 10;
+    private static final int HYRACKS_FRAME_SIZE = 128;
+    private IHyracksStageletContext ctx = TestUtils.create(HYRACKS_FRAME_SIZE);
+
+    // create an R-tree of two dimensions
+    // fill the R-tree with random values using insertions
+    // perform ordered scan
+    @Test
+    public void test01() throws Exception {
+
+        TestStorageManagerComponentHolder.init(PAGE_SIZE, NUM_PAGES, MAX_OPEN_FILES);
+        IBufferCache bufferCache = TestStorageManagerComponentHolder.getBufferCache(ctx);
+        IFileMapProvider fmp = TestStorageManagerComponentHolder.getFileMapProvider(ctx);
+        FileReference file = new FileReference(new File(fileName));
+        bufferCache.createFile(file);
+        int fileId = fmp.lookupFileId(file);
+        bufferCache.openFile(fileId);
+
+        // declare keys
+        int keyFieldCount = 4;
+        IBinaryComparator[] cmps = new IBinaryComparator[keyFieldCount];
+        cmps[0] = DoubleBinaryComparatorFactory.INSTANCE.createBinaryComparator();
+        cmps[1] = cmps[0];
+        cmps[2] = cmps[0];
+        cmps[3] = cmps[0];
+
+        // declare tuple fields
+        int fieldCount = 7;
+        ITypeTrait[] typeTraits = new ITypeTrait[fieldCount];
+        typeTraits[0] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[1] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[2] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[3] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[4] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[5] = new TypeTrait(4);
+        typeTraits[6] = new TypeTrait(8);
+
+        MultiComparator cmp = new MultiComparator(typeTraits, cmps);
+
+        RTreeTypeAwareTupleWriterFactory tupleWriterFactory = new RTreeTypeAwareTupleWriterFactory(typeTraits);
+
+        ITreeIndexFrameFactory interiorFrameFactory = new RTreeNSMInteriorFrameFactory(tupleWriterFactory,
+                keyFieldCount);
+        ITreeIndexFrameFactory leafFrameFactory = new RTreeNSMLeafFrameFactory(tupleWriterFactory, keyFieldCount);
+        ITreeIndexMetaDataFrameFactory metaFrameFactory = new LIFOMetaDataFrameFactory();
+        ITreeIndexMetaDataFrame metaFrame = metaFrameFactory.createFrame();
+
+        IRTreeFrame interiorFrame = (IRTreeFrame) interiorFrameFactory.createFrame();
+        IRTreeFrame leafFrame = (IRTreeFrame) leafFrameFactory.createFrame();
+        IFreePageManager freePageManager = new LinkedListFreePageManager(bufferCache, fileId, 0, metaFrameFactory);
+
+        RTree rtree = new RTree(bufferCache, freePageManager, interiorFrameFactory, leafFrameFactory, cmp);
+        rtree.create(fileId, leafFrame, metaFrame);
+        rtree.open(fileId);
+
+        ByteBuffer hyracksFrame = ctx.allocateFrame();
+        FrameTupleAppender appender = new FrameTupleAppender(ctx.getFrameSize());
+        ArrayTupleBuilder tb = new ArrayTupleBuilder(cmp.getFieldCount());
+        DataOutput dos = tb.getDataOutput();
+
+        @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
+        ISerializerDeserializer[] recDescSers = { DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE,
+                DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE, DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE,
+                DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE, DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE,
+                IntegerSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE, DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE };
+        RecordDescriptor recDesc = new RecordDescriptor(recDescSers);
+        IFrameTupleAccessor accessor = new FrameTupleAccessor(ctx.getFrameSize(), recDesc);
+        accessor.reset(hyracksFrame);
+        FrameTupleReference tuple = new FrameTupleReference();
+
+        RTreeOpContext insertOpCtx = rtree.createOpContext(IndexOp.INSERT, leafFrame, interiorFrame, metaFrame);
+
+        Random rnd = new Random();
+        rnd.setSeed(50);
+
+        Random rnd2 = new Random();
+        rnd2.setSeed(50);
+        for (int i = 0; i < 5000; i++) {
+
+            double p1x = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p1y = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p2x = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p2y = rnd.nextDouble();
+
+            double pk1 = rnd2.nextDouble();
+            int pk2 = rnd2.nextInt();
+            double pk3 = rnd2.nextDouble();
+
+            tb.reset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.min(p1x, p2x), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.min(p1y, p2y), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.max(p1x, p2x), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.max(p1y, p2y), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(pk1, dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            IntegerSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(pk2, dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(pk3, dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+
+            appender.reset(hyracksFrame, true);
+            appender.append(tb.getFieldEndOffsets(), tb.getByteArray(), 0, tb.getSize());
+
+            tuple.reset(accessor, 0);
+
+            if (i % 1000 == 0) {
+                print("INSERTING " + i + " " + Math.min(p1x, p2x) + " " + Math.min(p1y, p2y) + " " + Math.max(p1x, p2x)
+                        + " " + Math.max(p1y, p2y) + "\n");
+            }
+
+            try {
+                rtree.insert(tuple, insertOpCtx);
+            } catch (TreeIndexException e) {
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                e.printStackTrace();
+            }
+        }
+
+        // rtree.printTree(leafFrame, interiorFrame, recDescSers);
+        // System.err.println();
+
+        String rtreeStats = rtree.printStats();
+        print(rtreeStats);
+
+        // disk-order scan
+        print("DISK-ORDER SCAN:\n");
+        TreeDiskOrderScanCursor diskOrderCursor = new TreeDiskOrderScanCursor(leafFrame);
+        RTreeOpContext diskOrderScanOpCtx = rtree.createOpContext(IndexOp.DISKORDERSCAN, leafFrame, null, null);
+        rtree.diskOrderScan(diskOrderCursor, leafFrame, metaFrame, diskOrderScanOpCtx);
+        try {
+            while (diskOrderCursor.hasNext()) {
+                diskOrderCursor.next();
+                ITupleReference frameTuple = diskOrderCursor.getTuple();
+                String rec = cmp.printTuple(frameTuple, recDescSers);
+                print(rec + "\n");
+            }
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        } finally {
+            diskOrderCursor.close();
+        }
+
+        TreeIndexStatsGatherer statsGatherer = new TreeIndexStatsGatherer(bufferCache, freePageManager, fileId,
+                rtree.getRootPageId());
+        TreeIndexStats stats = statsGatherer.gatherStats(leafFrame, interiorFrame, metaFrame);
+        String string = stats.toString();
+        System.err.println(string);
+
+        rtree.close();
+        bufferCache.closeFile(fileId);
+        bufferCache.close();
+
+    }
+
+    // create an R-tree of two dimensions
+    // fill the R-tree with random values using insertions
+    // and then delete all the tuples which result of an empty R-tree
+    @Test
+    public void test02() throws Exception {
+
+        TestStorageManagerComponentHolder.init(PAGE_SIZE, NUM_PAGES, MAX_OPEN_FILES);
+        IBufferCache bufferCache = TestStorageManagerComponentHolder.getBufferCache(ctx);
+        IFileMapProvider fmp = TestStorageManagerComponentHolder.getFileMapProvider(ctx);
+        FileReference file = new FileReference(new File(fileName));
+        bufferCache.createFile(file);
+        int fileId = fmp.lookupFileId(file);
+        bufferCache.openFile(fileId);
+
+        // declare keys
+        int keyFieldCount = 4;
+        IBinaryComparator[] cmps = new IBinaryComparator[keyFieldCount];
+        cmps[0] = DoubleBinaryComparatorFactory.INSTANCE.createBinaryComparator();
+        cmps[1] = cmps[0];
+        cmps[2] = cmps[0];
+        cmps[3] = cmps[0];
+
+        // declare tuple fields
+        int fieldCount = 7;
+        ITypeTrait[] typeTraits = new ITypeTrait[fieldCount];
+        typeTraits[0] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[1] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[2] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[3] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[4] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[5] = new TypeTrait(4);
+        typeTraits[6] = new TypeTrait(8);
+
+        MultiComparator cmp = new MultiComparator(typeTraits, cmps);
+
+        RTreeTypeAwareTupleWriterFactory tupleWriterFactory = new RTreeTypeAwareTupleWriterFactory(typeTraits);
+
+        ITreeIndexFrameFactory interiorFrameFactory = new RTreeNSMInteriorFrameFactory(tupleWriterFactory,
+                keyFieldCount);
+        ITreeIndexFrameFactory leafFrameFactory = new RTreeNSMLeafFrameFactory(tupleWriterFactory, keyFieldCount);
+        ITreeIndexMetaDataFrameFactory metaFrameFactory = new LIFOMetaDataFrameFactory();
+        ITreeIndexMetaDataFrame metaFrame = metaFrameFactory.createFrame();
+
+        IRTreeFrame interiorFrame = (IRTreeFrame) interiorFrameFactory.createFrame();
+        IRTreeFrame leafFrame = (IRTreeFrame) leafFrameFactory.createFrame();
+        IFreePageManager freePageManager = new LinkedListFreePageManager(bufferCache, fileId, 0, metaFrameFactory);
+
+        RTree rtree = new RTree(bufferCache, freePageManager, interiorFrameFactory, leafFrameFactory, cmp);
+        rtree.create(fileId, leafFrame, metaFrame);
+        rtree.open(fileId);
+
+        ByteBuffer hyracksFrame = ctx.allocateFrame();
+        FrameTupleAppender appender = new FrameTupleAppender(ctx.getFrameSize());
+        ArrayTupleBuilder tb = new ArrayTupleBuilder(cmp.getFieldCount());
+        DataOutput dos = tb.getDataOutput();
+
+        @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
+        ISerializerDeserializer[] recDescSers = { DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE,
+                DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE, DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE,
+                DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE, DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE,
+                IntegerSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE, DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE };
+        RecordDescriptor recDesc = new RecordDescriptor(recDescSers);
+        IFrameTupleAccessor accessor = new FrameTupleAccessor(ctx.getFrameSize(), recDesc);
+        accessor.reset(hyracksFrame);
+        FrameTupleReference tuple = new FrameTupleReference();
+
+        RTreeOpContext insertOpCtx = rtree.createOpContext(IndexOp.INSERT, leafFrame, interiorFrame, metaFrame);
+
+        Random rnd = new Random();
+        rnd.setSeed(50);
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < 5000; i++) {
+
+            double p1x = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p1y = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p2x = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p2y = rnd.nextDouble();
+
+            double pk1 = rnd.nextDouble();
+            int pk2 = rnd.nextInt();
+            double pk3 = rnd.nextDouble();
+
+            tb.reset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.min(p1x, p2x), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.min(p1y, p2y), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.max(p1x, p2x), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.max(p1y, p2y), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(pk1, dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            IntegerSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(pk2, dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(pk3, dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+
+            appender.reset(hyracksFrame, true);
+            appender.append(tb.getFieldEndOffsets(), tb.getByteArray(), 0, tb.getSize());
+
+            tuple.reset(accessor, 0);
+
+            if (i % 1000 == 0) {
+                print("INSERTING " + i + " " + Math.min(p1x, p2x) + " " + Math.min(p1y, p2y) + " " + Math.max(p1x, p2x)
+                        + " " + Math.max(p1y, p2y) + "\n");
+            }
+
+            try {
+                rtree.insert(tuple, insertOpCtx);
+            } catch (TreeIndexException e) {
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                e.printStackTrace();
+            }
+        }
+
+        // rtree.printTree(leafFrame, interiorFrame, recDescSers);
+        // System.err.println();
+
+        String rtreeStats = rtree.printStats();
+        print(rtreeStats);
+
+        RTreeOpContext deleteOpCtx = rtree.createOpContext(IndexOp.DELETE, leafFrame, interiorFrame, metaFrame);
+        rnd.setSeed(50);
+        for (int i = 0; i < 5000; i++) {
+
+            double p1x = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p1y = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p2x = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p2y = rnd.nextDouble();
+
+            double pk1 = rnd.nextDouble();
+            int pk2 = rnd.nextInt();
+            double pk3 = rnd.nextDouble();
+
+            tb.reset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.min(p1x, p2x), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.min(p1y, p2y), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.max(p1x, p2x), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.max(p1y, p2y), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(pk1, dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            IntegerSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(pk2, dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(pk3, dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+
+            appender.reset(hyracksFrame, true);
+            appender.append(tb.getFieldEndOffsets(), tb.getByteArray(), 0, tb.getSize());
+
+            tuple.reset(accessor, 0);
+
+            if (i % 1000 == 0) {
+                print("DELETING " + i + " " + Math.min(p1x, p2x) + " " + Math.min(p1y, p2y) + " " + Math.max(p1x, p2x)
+                        + " " + Math.max(p1y, p2y) + "\n");
+            }
+
+            try {
+                rtree.delete(tuple, deleteOpCtx);
+
+            } catch (TreeIndexException e) {
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                e.printStackTrace();
+            }
+        }
+
+        TreeIndexStatsGatherer statsGatherer = new TreeIndexStatsGatherer(bufferCache, freePageManager, fileId,
+                rtree.getRootPageId());
+        TreeIndexStats stats = statsGatherer.gatherStats(leafFrame, interiorFrame, metaFrame);
+        String string = stats.toString();
+        System.err.println(string);
+
+        rtree.close();
+        bufferCache.closeFile(fileId);
+        bufferCache.close();
+
+    }
+
+    // create an R-tree of three dimensions
+    // fill the R-tree with random values using insertions
+    // perform ordered scan
+    @Test
+    public void test03() throws Exception {
+
+        TestStorageManagerComponentHolder.init(PAGE_SIZE, NUM_PAGES, MAX_OPEN_FILES);
+        IBufferCache bufferCache = TestStorageManagerComponentHolder.getBufferCache(ctx);
+        IFileMapProvider fmp = TestStorageManagerComponentHolder.getFileMapProvider(ctx);
+        FileReference file = new FileReference(new File(fileName));
+        bufferCache.createFile(file);
+        int fileId = fmp.lookupFileId(file);
+        bufferCache.openFile(fileId);
+
+        // declare keys
+        int keyFieldCount = 6;
+        IBinaryComparator[] cmps = new IBinaryComparator[keyFieldCount];
+        cmps[0] = DoubleBinaryComparatorFactory.INSTANCE.createBinaryComparator();
+        cmps[1] = cmps[0];
+        cmps[2] = cmps[0];
+        cmps[3] = cmps[0];
+        cmps[4] = cmps[0];
+        cmps[5] = cmps[0];
+
+        // declare tuple fields
+        int fieldCount = 9;
+        ITypeTrait[] typeTraits = new ITypeTrait[fieldCount];
+        typeTraits[0] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[1] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[2] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[3] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[4] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[5] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[6] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[7] = new TypeTrait(4);
+        typeTraits[8] = new TypeTrait(8);
+
+        MultiComparator cmp = new MultiComparator(typeTraits, cmps);
+
+        RTreeTypeAwareTupleWriterFactory tupleWriterFactory = new RTreeTypeAwareTupleWriterFactory(typeTraits);
+
+        ITreeIndexFrameFactory interiorFrameFactory = new RTreeNSMInteriorFrameFactory(tupleWriterFactory,
+                keyFieldCount);
+        ITreeIndexFrameFactory leafFrameFactory = new RTreeNSMLeafFrameFactory(tupleWriterFactory, keyFieldCount);
+        ITreeIndexMetaDataFrameFactory metaFrameFactory = new LIFOMetaDataFrameFactory();
+        ITreeIndexMetaDataFrame metaFrame = metaFrameFactory.createFrame();
+
+        IRTreeFrame interiorFrame = (IRTreeFrame) interiorFrameFactory.createFrame();
+        IRTreeFrame leafFrame = (IRTreeFrame) leafFrameFactory.createFrame();
+        IFreePageManager freePageManager = new LinkedListFreePageManager(bufferCache, fileId, 0, metaFrameFactory);
+
+        RTree rtree = new RTree(bufferCache, freePageManager, interiorFrameFactory, leafFrameFactory, cmp);
+        rtree.create(fileId, leafFrame, metaFrame);
+        rtree.open(fileId);
+
+        ByteBuffer hyracksFrame = ctx.allocateFrame();
+        FrameTupleAppender appender = new FrameTupleAppender(ctx.getFrameSize());
+        ArrayTupleBuilder tb = new ArrayTupleBuilder(cmp.getFieldCount());
+        DataOutput dos = tb.getDataOutput();
+
+        @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
+        ISerializerDeserializer[] recDescSers = { DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE,
+                DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE, DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE,
+                DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE, DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE,
+                DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE, DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE,
+                IntegerSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE, DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE };
+        RecordDescriptor recDesc = new RecordDescriptor(recDescSers);
+        IFrameTupleAccessor accessor = new FrameTupleAccessor(ctx.getFrameSize(), recDesc);
+        accessor.reset(hyracksFrame);
+        FrameTupleReference tuple = new FrameTupleReference();
+
+        RTreeOpContext insertOpCtx = rtree.createOpContext(IndexOp.INSERT, leafFrame, interiorFrame, metaFrame);
+
+        Random rnd = new Random();
+        rnd.setSeed(50);
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < 5000; i++) {
+
+            double p1x = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p1y = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p1z = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p2x = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p2y = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p2z = rnd.nextDouble();
+
+            double pk1 = rnd.nextDouble();
+            int pk2 = rnd.nextInt();
+            double pk3 = rnd.nextDouble();
+
+            tb.reset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.min(p1x, p2x), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.min(p1y, p2y), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.min(p1z, p2z), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.max(p1x, p2x), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.max(p1y, p2y), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.max(p1z, p2z), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(pk1, dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            IntegerSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(pk2, dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(pk3, dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+
+            appender.reset(hyracksFrame, true);
+            appender.append(tb.getFieldEndOffsets(), tb.getByteArray(), 0, tb.getSize());
+
+            tuple.reset(accessor, 0);
+
+            if (i % 1000 == 0) {
+                print("INSERTING " + i + " " + Math.min(p1x, p2x) + " " + Math.min(p1y, p2y) + " " + Math.min(p1z, p2z)
+                        + " " + " " + Math.max(p1x, p2x) + " " + Math.max(p1y, p2y) + " " + Math.max(p1z, p2z) + "\n");
+            }
+
+            try {
+                rtree.insert(tuple, insertOpCtx);
+            } catch (TreeIndexException e) {
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                e.printStackTrace();
+            }
+        }
+
+        // rtree.printTree(leafFrame, interiorFrame, recDescSers);
+        // System.err.println();
+
+        String rtreeStats = rtree.printStats();
+        print(rtreeStats);
+
+        // disk-order scan
+        print("DISK-ORDER SCAN:\n");
+        TreeDiskOrderScanCursor diskOrderCursor = new TreeDiskOrderScanCursor(leafFrame);
+        RTreeOpContext diskOrderScanOpCtx = rtree.createOpContext(IndexOp.DISKORDERSCAN, leafFrame, null, null);
+        rtree.diskOrderScan(diskOrderCursor, leafFrame, metaFrame, diskOrderScanOpCtx);
+        try {
+            while (diskOrderCursor.hasNext()) {
+                diskOrderCursor.next();
+                ITupleReference frameTuple = diskOrderCursor.getTuple();
+                String rec = cmp.printTuple(frameTuple, recDescSers);
+                print(rec + "\n");
+            }
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        } finally {
+            diskOrderCursor.close();
+        }
+
+        TreeIndexStatsGatherer statsGatherer = new TreeIndexStatsGatherer(bufferCache, freePageManager, fileId,
+                rtree.getRootPageId());
+        TreeIndexStats stats = statsGatherer.gatherStats(leafFrame, interiorFrame, metaFrame);
+        String string = stats.toString();
+        System.err.println(string);
+
+        rtree.close();
+        bufferCache.closeFile(fileId);
+        bufferCache.close();
+
+    }
+}
diff --git a/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/SearchCursorTest.java b/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-rtree-test/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/storage/am/rtree/SearchCursorTest.java
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2009-2010 by The Regents of the University of California
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * you may obtain a copy of the License from
+ * 
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.rtree;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.DataInput;
+import java.io.DataInputStream;
+import java.io.DataOutput;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Random;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.comm.IFrameTupleAccessor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.context.IHyracksStageletContext;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.IBinaryComparator;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.ISerializerDeserializer;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.ITypeTrait;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.RecordDescriptor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.TypeTrait;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.io.FileReference;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.io.ArrayTupleBuilder;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.io.FrameTupleAccessor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.io.FrameTupleAppender;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.accessors.FrameTupleReference;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.accessors.ITupleReference;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.comparators.DoubleBinaryComparatorFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.marshalling.DoubleSerializerDeserializer;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.marshalling.IntegerSerializerDeserializer;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.IFreePageManager;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexCursor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexFrameFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexMetaDataFrame;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexMetaDataFrameFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.TreeIndexException;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.frames.LIFOMetaDataFrameFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.freepage.LinkedListFreePageManager;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.ophelpers.IndexOp;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.ophelpers.MultiComparator;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.api.IRTreeInteriorFrame;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.api.IRTreeLeafFrame;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.frames.RTreeNSMInteriorFrameFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.frames.RTreeNSMLeafFrameFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.impls.RTree;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.impls.RTreeOpContext;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.impls.RTreeSearchCursor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.impls.SearchPredicate;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.rtree.tuples.RTreeTypeAwareTupleWriterFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.common.buffercache.IBufferCache;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.common.file.IFileMapProvider;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.test.support.TestStorageManagerComponentHolder;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.test.support.TestUtils;
+
+public class SearchCursorTest extends AbstractRTreeTest {
+    private static final int PAGE_SIZE = 256;
+    private static final int NUM_PAGES = 10;
+    private static final int MAX_OPEN_FILES = 10;
+    private static final int HYRACKS_FRAME_SIZE = 128;
+    private IHyracksStageletContext ctx = TestUtils.create(HYRACKS_FRAME_SIZE);
+
+    // create an R-tree of two dimensions
+    // fill the R-tree with random values using insertions
+    // and then perform range search
+    @Test
+    public void searchCursorTest() throws Exception {
+
+        TestStorageManagerComponentHolder.init(PAGE_SIZE, NUM_PAGES, MAX_OPEN_FILES);
+        IBufferCache bufferCache = TestStorageManagerComponentHolder.getBufferCache(ctx);
+        IFileMapProvider fmp = TestStorageManagerComponentHolder.getFileMapProvider(ctx);
+        FileReference file = new FileReference(new File(fileName));
+        bufferCache.createFile(file);
+        int fileId = fmp.lookupFileId(file);
+        bufferCache.openFile(fileId);
+
+        // declare keys
+        int keyFieldCount = 4;
+        IBinaryComparator[] cmps = new IBinaryComparator[keyFieldCount];
+        cmps[0] = DoubleBinaryComparatorFactory.INSTANCE.createBinaryComparator();
+        cmps[1] = cmps[0];
+        cmps[2] = cmps[0];
+        cmps[3] = cmps[0];
+
+        // declare tuple fields
+        int fieldCount = 5;
+        ITypeTrait[] typeTraits = new ITypeTrait[fieldCount];
+        typeTraits[0] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[1] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[2] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[3] = new TypeTrait(8);
+        typeTraits[4] = new TypeTrait(4);
+
+        MultiComparator cmp = new MultiComparator(typeTraits, cmps);
+
+        RTreeTypeAwareTupleWriterFactory tupleWriterFactory = new RTreeTypeAwareTupleWriterFactory(typeTraits);
+
+        ITreeIndexFrameFactory interiorFrameFactory = new RTreeNSMInteriorFrameFactory(tupleWriterFactory,
+                keyFieldCount);
+        ITreeIndexFrameFactory leafFrameFactory = new RTreeNSMLeafFrameFactory(tupleWriterFactory, keyFieldCount);
+        ITreeIndexMetaDataFrameFactory metaFrameFactory = new LIFOMetaDataFrameFactory();
+        ITreeIndexMetaDataFrame metaFrame = metaFrameFactory.createFrame();
+
+        IRTreeInteriorFrame interiorFrame = (IRTreeInteriorFrame) interiorFrameFactory.createFrame();
+        IRTreeLeafFrame leafFrame = (IRTreeLeafFrame) leafFrameFactory.createFrame();
+        IFreePageManager freePageManager = new LinkedListFreePageManager(bufferCache, fileId, 0, metaFrameFactory);
+
+        RTree rtree = new RTree(bufferCache, freePageManager, interiorFrameFactory, leafFrameFactory, cmp);
+        rtree.create(fileId, leafFrame, metaFrame);
+        rtree.open(fileId);
+
+        ByteBuffer hyracksFrame = ctx.allocateFrame();
+        FrameTupleAppender appender = new FrameTupleAppender(ctx.getFrameSize());
+        ArrayTupleBuilder tb = new ArrayTupleBuilder(cmp.getFieldCount());
+        DataOutput dos = tb.getDataOutput();
+
+        @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
+        ISerializerDeserializer[] recDescSers = { DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE,
+                DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE, DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE,
+                DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE, IntegerSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE };
+        RecordDescriptor recDesc = new RecordDescriptor(recDescSers);
+        IFrameTupleAccessor accessor = new FrameTupleAccessor(ctx.getFrameSize(), recDesc);
+        accessor.reset(hyracksFrame);
+        FrameTupleReference tuple = new FrameTupleReference();
+
+        RTreeOpContext insertOpCtx = rtree.createOpContext(IndexOp.INSERT, leafFrame, interiorFrame, metaFrame);
+
+        Random rnd = new Random();
+        rnd.setSeed(50);
+        for (int i = 0; i < 5000; i++) {
+
+            double p1x = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p1y = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p2x = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p2y = rnd.nextDouble();
+
+            int pk = rnd.nextInt();
+
+            tb.reset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.min(p1x, p2x), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.min(p1y, p2y), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.max(p1x, p2x), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.max(p1y, p2y), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            IntegerSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(pk, dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+
+            appender.reset(hyracksFrame, true);
+            appender.append(tb.getFieldEndOffsets(), tb.getByteArray(), 0, tb.getSize());
+
+            tuple.reset(accessor, 0);
+
+            if (i % 1000 == 0) {
+                print("INSERTING " + i + " " + Math.min(p1x, p2x) + " " + Math.min(p1y, p2y) + " " + Math.max(p1x, p2x)
+                        + " " + Math.max(p1y, p2y) + "\n");
+            }
+
+            try {
+                rtree.insert(tuple, insertOpCtx);
+            } catch (TreeIndexException e) {
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                e.printStackTrace();
+            }
+        }
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
+            double p1x = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p1y = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p2x = rnd.nextDouble();
+            double p2y = rnd.nextDouble();
+
+            int pk = rnd.nextInt();
+
+            tb.reset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.min(p1x, p2x), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.min(p1y, p2y), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.max(p1x, p2x), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            DoubleSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(Math.max(p1y, p2y), dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+            IntegerSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.serialize(pk, dos);
+            tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+
+            appender.reset(hyracksFrame, true);
+            appender.append(tb.getFieldEndOffsets(), tb.getByteArray(), 0, tb.getSize());
+
+            tuple.reset(accessor, 0);
+
+            print(i + " Searching for: " + Math.min(p1x, p2x) + " " + Math.min(p1y, p2y) + " " + Math.max(p1x, p2x)
+                    + " " + Math.max(p1y, p2y) + "\n");
+
+            ITreeIndexCursor searchCursor = new RTreeSearchCursor(interiorFrame, leafFrame);
+            SearchPredicate searchPredicate = new SearchPredicate(tuple, cmp);
+
+            RTreeOpContext searchOpCtx = rtree.createOpContext(IndexOp.SEARCH, leafFrame, interiorFrame, metaFrame);
+            rtree.search(searchCursor, searchPredicate, searchOpCtx);
+
+            ArrayList<Integer> results = new ArrayList<Integer>();
+            try {
+                while (searchCursor.hasNext()) {
+                    searchCursor.next();
+                    ITupleReference frameTuple = searchCursor.getTuple();
+                    ByteArrayInputStream inStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(frameTuple.getFieldData(4),
+                            frameTuple.getFieldStart(4), frameTuple.getFieldLength(4));
+                    DataInput dataIn = new DataInputStream(inStream);
+                    Integer res = IntegerSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE.deserialize(dataIn);
+                    results.add(res);
+                }
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                e.printStackTrace();
+            } finally {
+                searchCursor.close();
+            }
+
+            System.err.println("There are " + results.size() + " objects that satisfy the query");
+        }
+
+        rtree.close();
+        bufferCache.closeFile(fileId);
+        bufferCache.close();
+    }
+}