6. Miscellaneous Mnesia Features

6 Miscellaneous Mnesia Features

The previous sections describe how to get started with Mnesia and how to build a Mnesia database. This section describes the more advanced features available when building a distributed, fault-tolerant Mnesia database. The following topics are included:

• Indexing
• Distribution and fault tolerance
• Table fragmentation
• Local content tables
• Disc-less nodes
• More about schema management
• Mnesia event handling
• Debugging Mnesia applications
• Concurrent processes in Mnesia
• Prototyping
• Object-based programming with Mnesia

6.1 Indexing

Data retrieval and matching can be performed efficiently if the key for the record is kn