Dat is (currently) focused on synchronizing files in a peer-to-peer network. Noms can store files, but it is much more focused on structured data. You put indi

Dat is (currently) focused on synchronizing files in a peer-to-peer network. Noms can store files, but it is much more focused on structured data. You put individual values (numbers, strings, rows, structs, etc) into noms, using a type system that noms defines, and this allows you to query, diff, and efficiently update that data. Also Noms isn't peer-to-peer (although we hypothesize that it could run reasonably on top of an existing network like IPFS).