On: Rich Hickey's new project: datomic.com

[sausagefeet]

Isn't this the same compromise we would already have had to make if we just used postgres?

[weavejester → sausagefeet]

It's actually slightly better than a SQL database. If your master SQL database gets fried, there's a chance you could lose some data. Datomic's transactor only handles atomicity, not writes, so if the transactor dies, nothing written to the database will be lost.