Datomic

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Datomic
Original author(s)Rich Hickey, Stuart Halloway, Justin Gehtland
Developer(s)Cognitect
Initial release2012; 12 years ago (2012)
Stable release
1.0.6735 / June 30, 2023; 9 months ago (2023-06-30)
Written in
TypeDatalog, NoSQL
LicenseProprietary software
Websitedatomic.com

Datomic is a distributed database and implementation of Datalog.[1][2] It has ACID transactions, joins, and a logical query language, Datalog.[3][4] A distinguishing feature of Datomic is that time is a basic feature of data entities.[5]

Architecture

It has been designed for first-class use with

JVM languages such as Java and Clojure.[6]

In its reference architecture, Datomic uses peers

JVM
.

References

  1. ^ Hickey, Rich (2013-02-01). "The Datomic Information Model". Retrieved 2013-02-04.
  2. ^ Halloway, Stuart. "Datomic: A New Database". The Strange Loop. Archived from the original on 2013-03-09. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
  3. ^ "Datomic Rationale". Cognitect. Archived from the original on 2013-07-08. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
  4. ^ Hunger, Michael. "Rich Hickey's Datomic embraces Cloud, intelligent Applications and Consistency". Retrieved 2013-02-04.
  5. ^ Kiel, Alexander (2013-02-05). "Datomic - A Functional Database" (PDF). Leipzig University.
  6. ^ Hickey, Rich (2012-06-06). "The Design of Datomic".
  7. ^ "Overview of Peers in Datomic".
  8. ^ "Datomic Transactor". Retrieved 2021-04-08.