AFAIK mnesia has a hardcoded 2GB limit somewhere due to using 32-bit values in some important place.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 5, 2007 6:18 PM, Dominic Williams <<a href="mailto:erlang@dominicwilliams.net">
erlang@dominicwilliams.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello,<br><br>In the recent discussion about BDB, several prominent
<br>members of the community were of the opinion that Mnesia is<br>not fit for large databases.<br><br>Is this still the case with fragmented tables?<br><br>It was also suggested that for large volumes of stored,<br>rarely consulted data, something like mysql is better, and
<br>Mnesia should be kept for realtime session data.<br><br>What about when the realtime session tables are getting<br>huge? Any reason not to use Mnesia in that case?<br><br>Can someone clarify in what precisely makes Mnesia unfit for
<br>large databases? Is it scalability? Bugs? Maintenance hell?<br><br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Dominic Williams<br><a href="http://dominicwilliams.net" target="_blank">http://dominicwilliams.net</a><br><br>----<br>_______________________________________________
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