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Re:Erlang R19 Release Candidate Available by dmix on Thursday May 12, 2016 @01:14PM (#11685094)
> pluggable storage for Mnesia. This removes the 2GB per shard limit.

This is a pretty big deal isn't it? I've never used Mnesia but that 2GB limit was a common warning I came across in the docs and blog posts, despite noting it was a great DB to work with.

Re:Erlang R19 Release Candidate Available by rdtsc on Thursday May 12, 2016 @01:28PM (#11685190)
Yap pretty big.

Allegedly this has already been running at Klarna in production for a while. LevelDB backend from Basho (eleveldb, it has extra optimizations and improvements besides just Erlang wrapper) has been used.

Granted 15-20 some years ago perhaps 2GB was BigData(TM) ;-)

For a while I understand you could set up sharding, so each shard is 2GB and spread shards across nodes.