Vendors' Sites

 

R-trees have been already integrated into commercial DBMSs. The following (obviously, non-exhaustive) list provides relevant information:

OracleDatasheet on Oracle 9i rel.2 Spatialwhite paper on Oracle Spatial (with more details on R-tree implementation)

IBM InformixWhite paperR-tree description

MySQL: GIS and spatial extensions with MySQL
PostgreSQL: Interfacing extensions to indexes (R-tree has been re-implemented using GiST in rel. 82)