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.