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I think a big difference is that Datomic can scale out reads in a distributed way. While also keeping writes consistent and transactional. So its specifically

I think a big difference is that Datomic can scale out reads in a distributed way. While also keeping writes consistent and transactional. So its specifically designed for such case where you need consistent transactional writes, while needing high scale reads.

qaq 9y ago
PostgreSQL can do few million reads per second on a high end x86 box. You can scale our reads easily by running multiple slaves.