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Etso is an ETS adapter, allowing you to use Ecto schemas with ETS tables.

Within this library, a bare-bones Ecto Adapter is provided. The Adapter transparently spins up ETS tables for each Ecto Repo and Schema combination. The tables are publicly accessible to enable concurrency, and tracked by reference to ensure encapsulation. Each ETS table is spun up by a dedicated Table Server under a shared Dynamic Supervisor.

For a detailed look as to what is available, check out Northwind Repo Test.

Highlights & Benefits

Key highlights of this library are:

Key points to consider when adopting this library are:

Feature Coverage

The following features are working:

The Northwind Repo Test should give you a good idea of what’s included.

Missing Features

The following features, for example, are missing:

Installation

Using Etso is a two-step process. First, include it in your application’s dependencies:

defp deps do
  [
    {:etso, "~> 1.1.0"}
  ]
end

Afterwards, create a new Ecto.Repo, which uses Etso.Adapter:

defmodule MyApp.Repo do
  @otp_app Mix.Project.config()[:app]
  use Ecto.Repo, otp_app: @otp_app, adapter: Etso.Adapter
end

Once this is done, you can use any Schema against the Repo normally, as you would with any other Repo. Check out the Northwind modules for an example.

Utilisation

Originally, Etso was created to answer the question of whether ETS and Ecto can be married together. It has since found some uses in production applications, serving as a Data Repository for pre-defined nested content. This proved invaluable for rapid iteration.

If you have other Use Cases for this library, please add it here with a Pull Request.

Further Note

This repository is extracted from a prior project ETS Playground, which was created to support a session at ElixirConf EU 2019, Leveraging ETS Effectively.

Specifically, this library was created to illustrate the point that ETS can serve as a scalable storage layer for data which changes infrequently. Check out the Northwind Importer for an example.

Acknowledgements

This project contains a copy of data obtained from the Northwind database, which is owned by Microsoft. It is included for demonstration and testing purposes only, and is excluded from the distribution. The Author thanks Microsoft Corporation for the inspiration.

The Author also wishes to thank the following individuals: