[erlang-questions] ets:next/2 behavior - set vs. ordered_set

[Jon Watte]

So, by transitivity, the same reasons mnesia is annoying for large data
sets?

Sincerely,

jw


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On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Bob Ippolito <bob@REDACTED> wrote:

> The main issues that I'm aware of are that a dets file can't be larger
> than 2GB, ordered_set isn't supported, repair is often not very fast,
> and the only way to defragment a table is to close it and re-open it
> with repair set to force (mostly a problem because of the 2GB limit).
>
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/dets.html
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Jon Watte <jwatte@REDACTED> wrote:
> > In what way is dets not production worthy?
> > Sincerely,
> > jw
> >
> > --
> > Americans might object: there is no way we would sacrifice our living
> > standards for the benefit of people in the rest of the world.
> Nevertheless,
> > whether we get there willingly or not, we shall soon have lower
> consumption
> > rates, because our present rates are unsustainable.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Joseph Norton <
> norton@REDACTED>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> The basic goal is to build and test a production worthy replacement for
> >> ets with disk based storage.   After I have the basics in place, I can
> >> elaborate further.
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >>
> >> Joseph Norton
> >>
> >> On Sep 13, 2011, at 9:55 AM, OvermindDL1 wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Joseph Wayne Norton
> >> > <norton@REDACTED> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm currently developing a disk based clone of the ets application.
> >> >
> >> > Can you elaborate how this is different from dets, or are you doing it
> >> > for learning?
> >>
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