You can rather easily use DETS (Disk Erlang Term Storage) for simple applications and Mnesia for larger ones. This is a simple approach that works quite well IM

You can rather easily use DETS (Disk Erlang Term Storage) for simple applications and Mnesia for larger ones. This is a simple approach that works quite well IMHO. This looks really great, Elixir plus this would be quite a nice web stack.