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Datomic 2013 Recap

08 December 2013

2013 was a great year for Datomic.  The value of a flexible information model and immutable data have proven themselves time and again.  Customers have built a variety of powerful systems, taking advantage of

  • ACID transactions
  • pluggable SQL/NoSQL/cloud storage
  • complete access to the history of information
  • the Datalog query language
  • elastic read scalability
  • a granular information model
Over the course of the year, we produced over 40 Datomic releases. The API has been remarkably stable: Our commitment to a strong architecture has allowed us to focus on adding features and fleshing out the vision, without the churn of revisiting past decisions.  

A major new feature is the Datomic Console, a graphical UI for exploring Datomic databases.  The console provides a great visual introduction to the Datomic information model.  It supports exploring schema, building and executing queries, navigating entities, examining transaction history, and walking raw indexes. 

We made several API additions:
  • Excision, a sound model (and API) for permanent removal of data, with auditability.
  • The log API provides the ability to access the log, which is more properly viewed as a time index.
  • The seekDatoms and entidAt APIs provide advanced capability for accessing Datomic's indexes, augmenting the datoms API.
  • The sync API allows multiple processes to coordinate around points in time-of-record, or relative to local process time.
  • Transaction map expansion automates the creation of arbitrarily nested data.
We also made a number of operational improvements:
  • We added Cassandra and to the list of supported storage, in addition to the existing options of DynamoDB, SQL, filesystem, CouchBase, Infinispan, and Riak.
  • The Starter Edition of the Datomic Pro license makes all storages available, for free.
  • We have added a number of new CloudWatch metrics, and a pluggable metrics API for integration with other systems.
  • The MusicBrainz sample database is a great dataset for exploring Datomic.
  • We continue to track AWS best practices, now supporting IAM roles for distributing credentials and DynamoDB local for testing.
We are looking forward to an equally exciting 2014. We will be delivering a number of new features requested by users, plus a few big surprises.

Many thanks to our customers and early adopters for your support and feedback.

Happy New Year!