[erlang-questions] Twoorl: an open source Twitter clone

[Steve Davis]

On Jun 4, 9:16 am, Damien Morton <dmor...@REDACTED> wrote:
> I think Bob hit the nail on the head with this.
>
> No database is needed. Everything can pretty much be achieved with files
> containing fixed-length records.

What you and Bob have said is, of course, true. I suspect that as the
system becomes large scale then the software required to access and
manage those files would eventually end up looking a lot like one
of... an RDBMS, a Message Queue, an IM server, etc.