funnily enough, many DB engines are written in Erlang -- a usually slow, high-level language. CouchDB, Riak, Mnesia, Hibari, Amazon SimpleDB, etc. They're not c

funnily enough, many DB engines are written in Erlang -- a usually slow, high-level language. CouchDB, Riak, Mnesia, Hibari, Amazon SimpleDB, etc. They're not completely off the table.