History
The B tree was first described in the paper Organization and Maintenance of Large Ordered Indices. Acta Informatica 1: 173–189 (1972) by Rudolf Bayer and Edward M. McCreight. There is no single paper introducing the B+ tree concept. Instead, the notion of maintaining all data in leaf nodes is repeatedly brought up as an interesting variant. An early survey of B trees also covering B+ trees is Douglas Comer: "The Ubiquitous B-Tree", ACM Computing Surveys 11(2): 121–137 (1979). Comer notes that the B+ tree was used in IBM's VSAM data access software and he refers to an IBM published article from 1973.
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