From what I understand, Datomic’s model is far more flexible than many other databases, and has built in time travelling capability due to its accretion of immutable data.
It’s architecture does, in fact, allow you to choose the storage provider, and it’s considered an external concern.
Those are very compelling reasons to use it, but part of the trade off is write-scalability, and potentially, raw performance.
So maybe it’s “do more” within certain limitations (which is up to you to decide if those limitations are a deal breaker).
It really depends on the definition of “do more”.
From what I understand, Datomic’s model is far more flexible than many other databases, and has built in time travelling capability due to its accretion of immutable data.
It’s architecture does, in fact, allow you to choose the storage provider, and it’s considered an external concern.
Those are very compelling reasons to use it, but part of the trade off is write-scalability, and potentially, raw performance.
So maybe it’s “do more” within certain limitations (which is up to you to decide if those limitations are a deal breaker).
Here’s a great talk about Datomic’s architecture for more details: https://youtu.be/9TYfcyvSpEQ