Datomic Database

Discussions center on Datomic, a Datalog-based database, including user experiences, comparisons to traditional databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL, and its unique features such as immutability and temporal queries.

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MaxGabriel Oct 30, 2013 View on HN

Have people used Datomic? What has your experience been like?

vlaaad Aug 25, 2021 View on HN

Datomic: https://www.datomic.com/

strangattractor Jan 10, 2024 View on HN

Seems similar datomic.https://www.datomic.com/benefits.html

whitepoplar May 10, 2019 View on HN

isn't this what datomic does?

jahnu Jun 23, 2022 View on HN

Doesn’t Datomic do all this for some years now?

timClicks Oct 8, 2016 View on HN

The Datomic database is a great datalog implementation

cdiamand Apr 22, 2022 View on HN

Fun tutorial! When does it make sense to use Datomic over something like MySQL or PostgreSQL?

lichtenberger Apr 21, 2019 View on HN

Thanks for the Datomic link, didn't know of that database system :-)

anacrolix Jan 28, 2025 View on HN

Isn't this what you get with Datomic?

symfrog Aug 22, 2014 View on HN

Have you looked at Datomic? It seems to fit your problem description well.