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by weatherlight 1150 days ago
> There is zero reason for a language runtime to be opinionated about the database

* The Erlang runtime has Mnesia and ETS built in. Batteries included. It's awesome.

* Python has a built-in persistent key-value store, dbm.

* Ruby has one as well, pstore.

Now, you can always decide to use something else! 99% of the time m not going to use dbm, or pstore, but they are nice to haves. (Mnesia and ETS rocks though, and I use those all the time.)