> There is a mostly API-compatible distributed version of ETS in OTP, called DETS. And a higher-level distributed database built on top of ETS/DETS called Mnesi

> There is a mostly API-compatible distributed version of ETS in OTP, called DETS. And a higher-level distributed database built on top of ETS/DETS called Mnesia, again, in OTP. So, no, you aren't. DETS is the disk based term storage, it is as distributed as ETS.