cola is a C implementation of the COLA structure described in the paper "Cache Oblivious Streaming B-Trees" by Bender, Farach-Colton, et al. This algorithm is a drop-in replacement for B-Tree databases/indexes which performs faster on spinning disks than B-Trees do on SSD. It's asymptotically optimal in terms of data transfers to and from disk. For example, random key inserts are turned into linear sequential writes while maintaining the property which queries always require, at most, precisely log N blocks read sequentially (but not contiguously) from disk (or half that, on average).
