Jim Self wrote:
> All of the features of the Mnesia DBMS listed above are extremely
> interesting so I took a brief look at the documentation at the link you
> gave. Unfortunately, it appears to have a couple of fatal flaws as a
> potential platform for something like our HIS and, I think, for healthcare
> software in general: 1) inefficient handling of text
> (http://www.erlang.org/faq/x299.html#AEN309), 2) limitation of database size
> to 4GB (http://www.erlang.org/faq/x1084.html#AEN1103).
Erlang doesn't look very OO either, unless there was a section about classes etc
that I completely missed in the online documentation....
- thomas beale
