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Welcome to sales tactics ;) Datomic is great but as another commenter said, is good for "small-ish backoffice systems that never has to be web scale". You almo
by newlisp 3y ago
Welcome to sales tactics ;)
Datomic is great but as another commenter said, is good for "small-ish backoffice systems that never has to be web scale". You almost probably can rely on querying history for internal applications. I think their primary market was for companies to use it internally but they never made this clear.
- KingMob 3y agoIronically, Hickey fired the one marketer they hired for Datomic. He lucked out when a unicorn went all in on it. Word around Cognitect was, Datomic was barely breaking even.
- xmlblog 3y ago> "small-ish backoffice systems that never has to be web scale". Doesn't production use of Datomic by Nubank and Netflix (to mention just two examples) belie this assertion?
- bilkow 3y agoDo those companies specify what they use it for? They probably have their own internal "small-ish backoffice systems".
- oblio 3y agoNubank is one thing, but for Netflix, just like for any big company 10000 DB technologies are probably in use at the same time. And 9996 of them are used for stuff like the internal HR DB or other minor projects.
- KingMob 3y agoAlternatively, Datomic wasn't performing up to snuff, and they found it cheaper to buy Cognitect than do a DB migration :D