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Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database

InfoQ · 106.2K views · 2012-08-23 · 1:06:24

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Overview

Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure and designer of Datomic, gives a JaxConf 2012 talk that takes apart traditional database architecture. He presents a different way to think about databases and explains the reasoning behind Datomic's fact-based design.

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HN points people to it as the clearest account of why Datomic is designed the way it is and of the problems with conventional database architecture.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2012–2020

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slowmovintarget · 2020-04 · Strong recommendation

Rich Hickey's talk on the design of Datomic is also something every programmer should see at least once: [VIDEO]

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pgt · 2018-08 · Recommendation

You will enjoy the fact-based database Datomic, which is the reason Rich Hickey made Clojure: [VIDEO] Datalog is a much, much, much query language better than SQL: [LINK]

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shotgun · 2015-09 · Recommendation

Although tangential to your question, I feel you might enjoy presentations by Rich Hickey wherein he describes traditional database architectures and presents the whys and wherefores behind Datomic. For example: [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK]

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