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Re:Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages by pmarreck on Monday February 19, 2018 @11:16PM (#16417813)
Datomic is an immutable database, so if you need ephemeral (deleteable) data you could just set up another non-Datomic store.
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Re:Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages by grzm on Monday February 19, 2018 @11:19PM (#16417826)
You're correct that Datomic considers immutability a feature. That said, Datomic on-prem supports excision which completely removes data for exceptional cases. I suspect Datomic Cloud will sometime in the future.
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Re:Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages by snorremd on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @03:08AM (#16418618)
With EU's GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) looming on the horizon I think Cognitect would do themselves a disservice should they not include excision in their Datomic Cloud platform sooner rather than later.
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