[erlang-questions] dict vs. ETS choice

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

On 11/07/2014, at 6:29 AM, Derek Brown wrote:

> Let's say you want to store on the order of tens of thousands key/value pairs, with integer keys and proplist values (less than 10 simple key/value pairs per proplist). Read-heavy with few writes.

Key factors:
(1) Scope : do the data need to be accessible from many
    processes or just one?
(2) Persistence : can the data go away when some one process
    dies / when a node shuts down /  when the disc is decommissioned
    / never if possible?
(3) Volume.  "10s of 1000s" could be a very small amount of data
    or an extremely large amount depending on the size of the values.
    This should be considered relative to available storage.
(4) Traffic.  "Ready-heavy" means how many reads per second?
    "Few" writes means how many writes per second?
(5) Operations.  What are _all_ the operations you want?
(6) Unknown unknowns.