B+ Tree Project

Setup to run

Windows:

1. make sure cmake is installed (>=3.26). Check by running

   cmake --version
   

   Otherwise can install from https://cmake.org/download/
2. Go to project directory and create a new directory build

   mkdir build
   cd build
   

3. Run these two command to compile and build the exe file

   cmake ..
   cmake --build .
   

4. An exe file should be created inside the Debug folder run this exe in console by running:

   .\Debug\B_Plus_Tree_Project.exe
   

   This exe file will run the main.cpp file for internal testing of the B+ Tree functions. To get the experiments results, please follow the steps below.

Mac

1. Install CMake through

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install cmake

   Alternatively you can use brew,

   brew install cmake

2. In the project directory, create dir named 'build' and navigate into it. This is to keep the source directory clean.

   mkdir build && cd build

3. Run this command to generate build files and build the project

   cmake .. && make
   

4. Run the executable

   ./B_Plus_Tree_Project

   This exe file will run the main.cpp file for internal testing of the B+ Tree functions. To get the experiments results, please follow the steps below.

Experiments

The script related to experiment is located in /src/experiment.cpp. When the script is run, it will print out all the results relevant to the experiments.

Windows

To run this script follow step 1 to 3 on top replace step 4 with

.\Debug\Experiment.exe

Mac

To run this script, run ./experiment in the /build folder. Ensure you have done the setup above before running the script.

If the script is not running whitin expectation please email twijaya001@e.ntu.edu.sg