I can&#x27;t say I found the piece particularly insightful.<p>It seemed to imply that mnesia is the DB of the future as soon as everyone realises that everything they are doing is completely wrong and they should be doing things that are more suited to mnesia. Without saying what those things are.<p>I actually found one of the child comments [1] was pushing in a better direction. Essentially, the vast drop in $&#x2F;TB of storage means that persistence of time series&#x2F; event type data is practical for the masses now. Sure it&#x27;s found a niche in ads on the web, but it has much wider applicability than that. 
I personally think that Erlang is particularly well suited to this space.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;erlang.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;erlang-questions&#x2F;2015-October&#x2F;086432.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;erlang.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;erlang-questions&#x2F;2015-October&#x2F;08...</a>