[imhoguy]

Tabular data model, thus also relational, is in use since dawn of known civilization [0]. Anything what can't be described and literally touched as table causes discomfort and will do for centuries to go. This is why CSV is still the king in data transfer.

Data outlives logic. Simple data structures survive complex data structures.

And when you hardly tie data retrieval with complex logic and specific technology then one day you may not be able to simply retrieve it.

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"ODE is a database system and environment based on the object paradigm. It offers one integrated data model for both database and general purpose manipulation. The database is defined, queried and manipulated in the database programming language O++ which is based on C++. O++ borrows and extends the object definition facility of C++, called the class. Classes support data encapsulation and multiple inheritance. We provide facilities for creating persistent and versioned objects, defining sets, and iterating over sets and clusters of persistent objects. We also provide facilities to associate constraints and triggers with objects. This paper presents the linguistic facilities provided in O++ and the data model it supports." 1989, [1]

Do you see similarities? It even started similarly as a research project. And it is gone now, both logic and data, likely gone with last program using O++, and will be with Clojure.

[0] https://www.datafix.com.au/BASHing/2020-08-12.html [1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/66926.66930

[panick21_]

And multiple table, connected make graphs. Almost nothing is a single table. If you want a single flat table in datomic, you can have it. In fact its literally just a big flat table conceptually.

> And when you hardly tie data retrieval with complex logic and specific technology then one day you may not be able to simply retrieve it.

You don't know how Datomic actually works do you?