Difference between delete and dirty delete in mnesia

Question

I have searched on net but could not find the satisfied answer to difference between mnesia:delete and mnesia:dirty_delete.Is this related to lock? Any pointers

Answer 1

This piece of docs will be helpful. It explains transactions in distributed mnesia and explains, that dirty functions run without them.

Answer 2

This is indeed related to transactions. Dirty give you the ability to bypass the transactional behaviour, but there is a risk for data integrity. Thus, you have to know what you are doing when using dirty operation.