[erlang-questions] Mnesia vs When Databases Lie: Consistency vs Availability in Distributed Systems

[Joel Reymont]

How does Erlang change or improve this situation?

http://tinyurl.com/2745ha

I can't imagine a fragmented Mnesia table would help here, not when  
one chunk lives in Europe and another in the US.

I also imagine there would be significant costs in Transatlantic  
replication (in terms of transaction time, not dollars) if a regular  
distributed Mnesia table is used.

I want to dig deep into Mnesia for the corresponding chapter of my  
book. I plan to try to figure out and write up the distributed commit  
protocol, for example.

I think I'll also try to set up exactly the scenario that the above  
article describes (two machines, multiple Mnesia nodes) and simulate  
denial of service attacks, tripping over power cords, etc.

I want to know exactly how much network bandwidth is taken by  
replication among other things and what exactly happens when I bring  
up a Mnesia node that went down. There was a discussion of this  
recently but nothing beats a step by step explanation.

	Thanks, Joel


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