Okay pinned it to read it later, seems to be a tiny goldmine https://team.inria.fr/wide/publications/
Honestly friends interested in replicated kv/databases might be interested in this https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02303490
New paper to have fun with 😵
"Merkle Hash Grids Instead of Merkle Trees"
http://www2.cs.uh.edu/~paris/MYPAPERS/Mascots20.pdf
On a sidenote, about the "Merkle Search Tree", some IPFS person took the idea in the paper and is trying a kinda crazy project
Omigosh, one of the person behind Merkle grid is also experimenting funny stuff with grid raid array
He sure like grids