Re:Optimizing Datalog for the GPU
by embedding-shape on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @11:15AM
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I have some local-first/client-side applications using datascript in ClojureScript. Used datahike (FOSS Datomic alternative) some times on the backend too, but mostly tend to use XTDB nowadays, which used to have a Datalog API but I think they removed in favor of SQL-like way instead, which was kind of a shame.
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I guess SQL is a requirement if they want to market their technology to normies.
SQL can express Datalog-like queries rather easily using recursive CTE's, and even more so via the recently-added Property Graph Query syntax.
recursive CTEs suck usability-wise compared to the usual Datalog horn clause syntax. I won't speak to usability of the "datomic" kind of datalog though, that thing I haven't been able to wrap my head around.