clojure-norway

Jakub Holý 2020-10-02T14:52:22.001500Z

Hello! I've asked a friend why they left Datomic Cloud for Postgres and this is his answer : A) useless documentation B) DIY tooling such as database backup (at that time) C) Contrary to on-prem, many things can only be done with Ions and they have their own requirements on workflow, infrastructure, etc, you must deal with lambdas And other reasons : - quite expensive compared to Pg - two i3 prod instances were ~ 5x slower than one M2 pg, despite optimizations - we actually needed a bi-temporal DB; we managed to replicate its versioning using pg snapshotting - support was slow and mostly we just heard "it isn't possible yet" What is your experience and thoughts?

2020-10-02T17:45:05.002500Z

yeah, datomic cloud seems interesting, but not that interesting... lack of excision is really strange, for example

2020-10-02T17:45:39.002900Z

I don't think I would really consider cloud, on-prem seems like the way to go

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Jakub Holý 2020-10-02T19:06:57.005400Z

Yeah, for Europians excision is a big deal. I guess it misses because they have multiple layers of caching and would need to clear them all (though gdpr itself perhaps isn't that strict?)

Jakub Holý 2020-10-02T19:12:23.005900Z

Do you run on-prem in AWS?

2020-10-02T19:12:41.006200Z

no, just "normal" servers, and just free