> never heard of anyone who actually uses mnesia for real I didn't till I had to become one of them this year. Mnesia is real, it's prime time, but not in plac

> never heard of anyone who actually uses mnesia for real I didn't till I had to become one of them this year. Mnesia is real, it's prime time, but not in place of something like Oracle. > comparing an oil rig driller to a fisher price screwdriver. Better analogy would be Comparing SQL Server to Redis. Mnesia is, at it's heart, a(n optionally) Transactional K-V lookup that can be run distributed. It's use case it works VERY well, but I wouldn't consider it a substitute for Relational storage.