system. not database. something like boinc for example. i.e. something doing decent math rather than just reading and writing chunks of data. since erlang is

system. not database. something like boinc for example. i.e. something doing decent math rather than just reading and writing chunks of data. since erlang is up to 100 times slower than java for calculation tasks. thats 100 times more expensive in terms of hardware. so i doubt its used much for distributed systems. But i can see the confusion. Others I've simply never even considered would be chosen.