Reenable the append tree and change metrics to use the append tree #661
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The append tree is a special case of the B+ tree which fills a page completely and instead of splitting it creates a new page on the right.
This means that page will be packed exactly to the limit which helps reduce the amount of pages.
Searching is still as quick as the B+ tree.
It is possible to prune from the left of the tree where entire leaf pages are removed if all values in the leaf page are in the pruning range. This allows pruning to be done without loading the actual leaf page from persistent or temporary disk storage.