[erlang-questions] Dets workarounds for large datasets?

[Mikkel Jensen]

Hi everyone,

I've been following the topic of storing large amounts of data in Mnesia.
The overall problem seems to be the fragmentation of free space when
deleting records, correct?

My question is: Can this issue be avoided if records where not physically
deleted but only _marked_ as deleted by a field in the record?

Alternatively: Would it be possible to have a timer job which would take the
node offline, repair the table and put it online again?
In a clustered environment this could be done in a round-robin kind of
fashion with no visible downtime to users.


I would really like to use Mnesia in a large web application but the size
limitation scares me.
If anyone can think of a workaround I would very much like to know...

- Mikkel
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