Mnesia is often listed among the NoSQL databases; for good reason, it seems, as it is neither relational nor SQL-oriented.
In the Erlang community, Mnesia is perhaps regarded as a bit of a dinosaur, albeit of the small and cuddly variety, but in this talk, I will try to demonstrate how Mnesia has a thing or two to teach the upstarts. I will also show how Mnesia can borrow from its CAP cousins and make a respectable stab at massive scalability and eventual consistency.