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they wont ... or at least not any time soon if you search online they did address this repeated request in summary they do it for money, they dont know how t
by systems 9y ago
they wont ... or at least not any time soon
if you search online they did address this repeated request
in summary
they do it for money,
they dont know how to do it for money if its open-source,
they already contributed clojure to the open source community
someone already was vocally aggressive about this in a blog: http://z.caudate.me/on-whose-authority/ http://z.caudate.me/on-whose-authority/
and rich hickey didnt like it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/73yznc/on_whose_authority/do1olag/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/73yznc/on_whose_au...
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My personal take on this
its not that datomic is closed source or that it cost a lot of money
its that for its cost, its a valid option for fewer people
i use ms sql at work, and it cost a lot of money
but .. you can easily make the business case for it
for datomic ... it would be much harder
datomic is a niche product .. which is not bad .. it is just where its at
- lgrapenthin 9y agoI don't believe that Datomic is profitable for Cognitect or ever has been. Given how profitable it is for my customers that truly is a shame. I wish they'd open source it, primarily because reading Rich Hickeys code is always enlightening. But I can see how cautious they are about it and am just glad they haven't already sold out to some big company who pushes tons of "business needs" into it. IME you can't really compare Datomic to a SQL database. If you know Datomic it is like comparing a filesystem to a harddrive.
- ExactoKnight 9y agoPopular databases at scale can be tremendously popular too. This is the profit model of databases like Neo4J. Not sure if it worked out for them, but it seems like a viable route to popularity: go big at scale. Amazon or Heroku style.