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Amitay Horwitz
August 24, 2017
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DATOMIC @amitayh THE FUNCTIONAL DATABASE
FULL DISCLOSURE ⚠
ABOUT DATOMIC • Developed by Cognitect • Initial release 2012
• Designed by Rich Hickey (author of the Clojure programming language) • Used by Facebook, Netflix, more…
FACTS ✅
FACTS • “Abraham Lincoln is the president of the United
States”
FACTS • “Abraham Lincoln is the president of the United
States” • “Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States on March 4, 1861”
FACTS • Abraham Lincoln • Position • President • March
4, 1861 Entity Attribute Value Timestamp
FACT = DATOM Entity Attribute Value Tx Operation
FACT = DATOM Entity Attribute Value Tx Operation 1033 :first-name
"Abraham" 260 add 1033 :last-name "Lincoln" 260 add 1033 :position "Lawyer" 277 add
FACT = DATOM Entity Attribute Value Tx Operation 1033 :first-name
"Abraham" 260 add 1033 :last-name "Lincoln" 260 add 1033 :position "Lawyer" 277 add 1033 :position "President" 522 add
FACT = DATOM Entity Attribute Value Tx Operation 1033 :first-name
"Abraham" 260 add 1033 :last-name "Lincoln" 260 add 1033 :position "Lawyer" 277 add 1033 :position "President" 522 add 1033 :position "President" 881 retract
FACT BASED MODEL Facts Facts Facts Facts Facts Facts Facts
Facts Time Facts Facts Time
GIT Facts Facts Facts Facts Objects Facts Facts Objects Time
Facts Objects Time
A DATABASE • A collection of datoms • At a
specific point in time • An immutable value
DATABASE AS A VALUE • Same as 42 is a
value • Safe to share, easy to reason about • Functions that take a database as an argument, or return a database
TIME BUILT IN • Get the database value as of,
or since, a point in time • See how the database would have looked like as if certain transactions took place • Reactive transaction reports
QUERIES
DATALOG • Equivalent to relational model + recursion • Declarative,
expressive and powerful • Pattern matching style • No more string concatenation!
EXAMPLE DATABASE Entity Attribute Value 42 :email
[email protected]
43 :email
[email protected]
42 :orders 107 42 :orders 141
DATA PATTERN Constrains the results returned, binds variables: [?customer :email
?email] Attribute Value Entity
DATA PATTERN Constrains the results returned, binds variables: [?customer :email
?email] Constant Variable Variable
Entity Attribute Value 42 :email
[email protected]
43 :email
[email protected]
42
:orders 107 42 :orders 141 “Find all customers with emails” [?customer :email ?email]
Entity Attribute Value 42 :email
[email protected]
43 :email
[email protected]
42
:orders 107 42 :orders 141 “Find a particular customer’s email” [42 :email ?email]
Entity Attribute Value 42 :email
[email protected]
43 :email
[email protected]
42
:orders 107 42 :orders 141 “What attributes does 42 have?” [42 ?attribute]
Entity Attribute Value 42 :email
[email protected]
43 :email
[email protected]
42
:orders 107 42 :orders 141 “What attributes and values does 42 have?” [42 ?attribute ?value]
WHERE CLAUSE [:find ?customer :where [?customer :email]] Data pattern
FIND CLAUSE [:find ?customer :where [?customer :email]]
IMPLICIT JOIN [:find ?customer :where [?customer :email] [?customer :orders]] “Find
all the customers who have placed orders”
PREDICATES [:find ?item :where [?item :item/price ?price] [(< 50 ?price)]]
“Find the expensive items”
CALLING FUNCTIONS [:find ?customer ?product :where [?customer :ship-address ?addr] [?adde
:zip ?zip] [?product :product/weight ?weight] [?product :product/price ?price] [(Shipping/estimate ?zip ?weight) ?ship-cost] [(<= ?price ?ship-cost)]] “Find me the customer/product combinations where the shipping cost dominates the product cost”
ARCHITECTURE
DATABASE ROLES • Queries • Transactions • Consistency • Storage
BREAK DOWN
DATOMIC COMPONENTS Peer library Transactor Storage
PEER LIBRARY Transactor Storage Peer library Your app • Embedded
in your app • Executed queries locally
Peer library Your app cache PEER LIBRARY Transactor Storage •
Reads data from storage • Caches locally
Peer library Your app cache Peer library Your app cache
Peer library Your app cache SCALE HORIZONTALLY Transactor Storage
TRANSACTOR Transactor Storage Peer library Your app • Standalone service
• Scales vertically
Transactor TRANSACTOR Transactor Storage Peer library Your app • Standalone
service • Scales vertically • Hot standby for failover
Transactor TRANSACTOR Storage Peer library Your app • Coordinates writes
• Guarantees ACID transactions (isolation level “serializable”)
Storage Transactor TRANSACTOR Peer library Your app • Writes transaction
log to storage • Generates indices
Peer library Your app cache Peer library Your app cache
Peer library Your app cache Storage Transactor TRANSACTOR • Broadcasts live updates
STORAGE Transactor Storage Peer library Your app • Provided as
a service • Many different backends
LOCAL STORAGE Transactor Storage Peer library Your app • Memory
• Filesystem • Great for testing!
NEARBY STORAGE Transactor Storage Peer library Your app • SQL
database (any JDBC)
DISTRIBUTED STORAGE ☁ Transactor Storage Peer library Your app •
DynamoDB • Riak • CouchBase • Cassandra • …
Peer library Your app cache Peer library Your app cache
Peer library Your app cache SHARED MEMCACHED Transactor Storage Memcached
EVENT SOURCING? • Datomic is lower level - facts vs
events • Annotate transactions! • Querying already built in • Listen on transaction queue to build reactive systems
Q&A
RESOURCES • http://www.datomic.com/ • Intro to Datomic by Rich Hickey
- http://wix.to/b8CQABU • The Value of Values by Rich Hickey - http://wix.to/D8CRABU • Datomic Datalog - http://wix.to/cMCQABU