mnesia

mnesia

Module

mnesia

Module summary

A distributed telecommunications DBMS

Description

The following are some of the most important and attractive capabilities provided by Mnesia:

  • A relational/object hybrid data model that is suitable for telecommunications applications.
  • A DBMS query language, Query List Comprehension (QLC) as an add-on library.
  • Persistence. Tables can be coherently kept on disc and in the main memory.
  • Replication. Tables can be replicated at several nodes.
  • Atomic transactions. A series of table manipulation operations can be grouped into a single atomic transaction.
  • Location transparency. Programs can be written without knowledge of the actual data location.
  • Extremely fast real-time data searches.
  • Schema manipulation routines. The DBMS can be reconfigured at runtime without stopping the s