Mnesia Fundamentals & Schema
Understand Mnesia's architecture, table types, and how to define schemas for your distributed data.
Welcome to Mnesia!
Mnesia is Erlang's built-in distributed database. It's designed for high availability, fault tolerance, and soft real-time systems, making it perfect for concurrent Erlang applications.
Think of Mnesia as a powerful, embedded database that seamlessly integrates with Erlang's concurrency model.
Mnesia's Core Strengths
Mnesia offers key features that align perfectly with Erlang's philosophy:
- Distributed: It can span across multiple Erlang nodes.
- Transactional: Guarantees atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID) for data operations.
- Fault-Tolerant: Automatically handles node failures and data replication.
- Hybrid Storage: Supports both in-memory and disk-based tables.
All lessons in this course
- Mnesia Fundamentals & Schema
- Transactions & Data Manipulation
- Distributed Mnesia & Replication
- Mnesia Indexing & Query Optimization