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		timClicks on Jan 20, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale Erlang was behind the NoSQL database that started the NoSQL hype train (CouchDB), a document database. The Erlang distribution contains an amazing distributed database called Mnesia. For books, read the AOSA Chapter on Riak (http://www.aosabook.org/en/riak.html) and then read through the tutorials on Riak Core. Oh, and Erlang in Anger https://s3.amazonaws.com/erlang-in-anger/text.v1.0.3.pdf

rozap on Jan 20, 2017 [–]

Mnesia is a joy to use, but keep mind it was written before the CAP theorem existed, so it doesn't behave that well in the face of network partitions.

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