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Data appears to be persisted to disk via Basho's bitcask. You mentioned in another comment that ETS is being used, which it is, but that's not on disk (DETS is the disk-backed version); ETS is used here to communicate between processes via public, named tables.

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Thanks for correcting me. I'm still just dipping my toe into erlang and forgot that there were two different versions.

(And thanks to lambdadmitry for the additional insight.)

You are completely right, thank you.

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