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Re:Rich Hickey's new project: datomic.com by mark_l_watson on Monday March 05, 2012 @02:04PM (#3667815)
Reading through the site reminds me of append-only CouchDB (or even better, BigCouch) both Datomic datoms and CouchDB documents have time stamps so the state of data is available for different times.

This looks new: local query peers that cache enough data to perform queries (I don't understand how that works, but it looks like indices might be local, with some data also cached locally).

Also interesting that it seems to use DynamoDB under the hood.

Re:Rich Hickey's new project: datomic.com by lukev on Monday March 05, 2012 @02:24PM (#3667906)
It can use DynamoDB under the hood, as a data store.

The data storage system is strongly decoupled from the transactor and the peer, so there are a number of options, ranging from a filesystem to S3 to DynamoDB.