[erlang-questions] Store maps in ets/dets?

[Björn-Egil Dahlberg]

On 2014-04-10 18:14, Michael Loftis wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:09 AM, Jesper Louis Andersen
> <jesper.louis.andersen@REDACTED> wrote:
>> The semantics of maps is that of a persistent data type. ETS is ephemeral.
>> So the fit is not good. Furthermore, maps are living int he process heap and
>> thus, they are automatically garbage collected. ETS is manually collected in
>> contrast. So the fit is even worse.
>>
> I think you might mean the opposite here....that maps is ephemeral and
> ETS is persistent (or can be persistent using DETS anyway)

I don't like the word ephemeral here =)

Persistent is used all over to describe Maps as immutable. Though if you 
have a database background the meaning of "persistent" is of course 
another. Describing ETS as persistent is stretching it a bit far.

Maps are copied on update (atleast the values are copied) i.e. Maps are 
immutable and in some circles this is equivalent to persistent.

// Björn-Egil

>
>> Maps currently has no order (based on maps:map/2 and maps:fold/3), which
>> means they can be implemented as HAMTs (like in Clojure) once they grow
>> large. This has very good runtime behaviour, while keeping the process
>> semantics intact. The other option is to give maps order, but then we can't
>> use digital searching techniques anymore and must resort to balanced search
>> trees, e.g., AVL or RB trees and friends.
>>
>> The current representation is very memory efficient however. It will
>> probably be very good for small maps with a keyset that doesn't change.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> wrote:
>>> Maybe I have missed something and failed to google this info, but are
>>> there any plans to store maps in ets?
>>>
>>>
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