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by anon291 134 days ago
Datomic is not sql but it is not mongo either. Mongo is completely unprincipled. Sql is halfway principled. Datomic and datalog are actually completely principled
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sgarland 134 days ago
What do you mean by “principled?”
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anon291 134 days ago
The semantics are simple and complete. Sql is based off a complete system (relational algebra), but the null handling results in degenerate cases.
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