[dustingetz]

for a real database that works like git, see http://www.datomic.com

if git killed svn, datomic kills postgres

[xj9]

if it were open source maybe, but i'm definitely not going to switch (even though i might want to) for licensing reasons. in fact, i have more motivation to write an libre datomic clone than to pay cognitect anything for their proprietary db.

[dustingetz]

do it!

[greghendershott]

Depending on the definition of "it", someone has: https://github.com/tonsky/datascript

[dustingetz]

datomic is a distributed system, datascript is an in memory data structure (it is very cool though, i use it)

[macintux]

As much as I appreciate datomic, that's a poor conclusion to draw. git is objectively better than svn. Postgres is not objectively worse than datomic; there are things that datomic simply can't do efficiently.

[dustingetz]

if you go back and read the git vs svn flame wars back when it first came out, people said the same thing. it happens every time there is a paradigm shift technology. the reactjs flame wars of 2013/4 were particularly brutal as everyone and their mom felt qualified to comment. the key idea here is that, at scale, immutability is just better, at nearly everything

[Scarbutt]

datomic is to slow on writes, even slower than sqlite, that's because it serializes all writes.