12 engineers on Hacker News describe using Datomic first-hand: 6 endorse it, 1 regret it, 4 are mixed.
“Datomic Cloud is slow, expensive, resource intensive, designed in the baroque style of massively over-complicated CloudFormation astronautics.”
regret · production · bvanderveen · 2023-04-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As someone who is using Datomic Pro in production for many years now I must agree with you.”
endorse · production · lgrapenthin · 2023-04-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Datomic's is perfect for probably 90% of small-ish backoffice systems that never has to be web scale (i.e. most of what I do at work).”
endorse · production · augustl · 2023-04-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“from my experience, usually you're going to find an error in your data that you want to fix "in the past" so those old reports change”
mixed · production · sbov · 2017-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“So far it's been a huge performance win.”
endorse · production · sdegutis · 2015-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it for years in production now... I found working with Datomic really nice... I did not like the way schema worked in the beginning”
mixed · production · jeletonskelly · 2015-07-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I love datomic. It's a relational, ACID, transactional, non-SQL database.”
mixed · personal · arohner · 2015-07-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We're using datomic in production. It's had its ups and downs. The licensing is a huge pain in the ass.”
mixed · production · jtmarmon · 2015-07-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We're also using it in production, and it works really well when paired with Datomic.”
endorse · production · dwwoelfel · 2015-07-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using Datomic in production since Jan 2013. It's as good as it says on the tin.”
endorse · production · 2 yr · robertstutt · 2015-07-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“One of the biggest draws in my opinion, as I've been using Datomic in production for several months.”
endorse · production · jeletonskelly · 2013-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“where we had both clojure and datomic running in production”
neutral · production · 3.5 yr · frankvilhelmsen · 2014-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?