Is it possible to develop a powerful web search engine using Erlang, Mnesia & Yaws?

Question

I am thinking of developing a web search engine using Erlang, Mnesia & Yaws. Is it possible to make a powerful and the fastest web search engine using these software? What w

Answer 1

I would recommend CouchDB instead of Mnesia.

• Mnesia doesn't have Map-Reduce, CouchDB does (correction - see comments)
• Mnesia is statically typed, CouchDB is a document database (and pages are documents, i.e. a better fit to the information model in my opinion)
• Mnesia is primarily intended to be a memory-resident database

YAWS is pretty good. You should also consider MochiWeb.

You won't go wrong with Erlang