[yellowapple]

Mnesia is probably what you want in that case, since it turns (D)ETS into a full-fledged database rather than a simple key-value store (think SQL v. Redis). Both are part of Erlang/OTP, though, so you get them for free just by using Erlang/Elixir/LFE/whatever.

There's a hex.pm package called "Amnesia" that wraps Mnesia in a more Elixiry format.

[sergiotapia]

That sounds fantastic. I'm all for trimming the fat if we don't need it. I'll research this, thanks for the suggestion.

[elcritch]

If you're using Phoenix or Ecto, look into ecto_mnesia (https://github.com/Nebo15/ecto_mnesia). It wraps up mnesia into a nice ecto wrapper. It's limited on what your primary keys can be.