Hypermnesia: Eventual Consistency in Mnesia
Motivation Mnesia is a soft real-time embedded Database Management System written for Erlang, a programming language that powers the infrastructures of various organisations such as Cisco, Ericsson and the NHS. Due to Mnesia’s tight integration with Erlang, it is also impactful in open source projects such as RabbitMQ and ejabberd. However, the development of Mnesia has remained stagnant for years, resulting in the lack of features such as automatic conflict resolution: Mnesia leaves the handling of conflicts after network partitions entirely to the developer....