# DSL: Ash.DataLayer.Mnesia An Mnesia backed Ash Datalayer. In your application initialization, you will need to call `Mnesia.create_schema([node()])`. Additionally, you will want to create your mnesia tables there. This data layer is *unoptimized*, fetching all records from a table and filtering them in memory. For that reason, it is not recommended to use it with large amounts of data. It can be great for prototyping or light usage, though. ## mnesia A section for configuring the mnesia data layer ### Examples ``` mnesia do table :custom_table end ``` ### Options

Name	Type	Default	Docs
table	atom		The table name to use, defaults to the name of the resource