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by dragonne 2732 days ago
I've endured Datomic for 4 years and I really wonder what the folks who enjoy it are doing, because for me it us utter misery.

- It's miserably slow (if you wish to contradict this statement, please provide numbers) - Consumes gobs of memory (export our data to JSON and it's orders of magnitude smaller) - Full text search will consume all your CPU cores for if you given it a short query (seriously, don't touch this feature, it is a basket full of footguns) - Resource leaks (the Cassandra backend used to leak full databases!)

I've been up to 3:00 a.m. dealing with bugs in Datomic. What use cases does it actually work for?

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Did you get in touch with cognitect? My datomic is running for more then 2 years with no crashes. I'm using it on dynamodb.