EdgeDB VS Datomic

EdgeDB

EdgeDB is a next-generation graph-relational database that lets you easily build flexible, scalable applications in real-time.

Datomic

The fully transactional, cloud-ready, distributed database

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KotlinConf 2018 - Datomic: The Most Innovative DB You've Never Heard Of by August Lilleaas

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to EdgeDB and Datomic)

Datomic

Databases

43 43%

Databases

57% 57

NoSQL Databases

46 46%

NoSQL Databases

54% 54

Network & Admin

44 44%

Network & Admin

56% 56

Relational Databases

42 42%

Relational Databases

58% 58

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, EdgeDB seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

EdgeDB mentions (4)

Beyond SQL: A relational database for modern applications
A new DB, with a new query language that's like "SQL done right"? This immediately reminded me of EdgeDB: https://edgedb.com/ Is there anyone here who knows enough about these two products to do a compare/contrast? - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
Beyond SQL: A relational database for modern applications
See also https://edgedb.com/ which is another relational database without sql. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
DuckDB 0.8.0
>relational no-sql Do you mean something like edgeDB?[0] Or do you mean some non-declarative language completely? I don't see the latter making much sense. The issue with SQL for me is the "natural language" which quickly loses all intended readabilty when you have SELECT col1, col2 FROM (SELECT * FROM ... WHERE 1=0 AND ... Which is what edgeDB is trying to solve. [0]https://edgedb.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago
GraphQL Is a Trap?
You have to do your own optimiser to avoid, for instance, the N+1 query problem. (Just Google that, plenty of explanations around.) Many GraphQL frameworks have a “naive” subquery implementation that performs N individual subqueries. You either have to override this for each parent/child pairing, or bolt something on the back to delay all the “SELECT * FROM tbl_subquery WHERE id = ?” operations and convert them... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago