What is DataScript?
It is an immutable in-memory database and Datalog query engine in Clojure and ClojureScript.
It is meant to run inside the browser. It is cheap to create, quick to query and ephemeral. You create a database on page load, put some data in it, track changes, do queries and forget about it when the user closes the page.
DataScript is a tool in the In-Memory Databases category of a tech stack.
DataScript is an open source tool with 5.5K GitHub stars and 308 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to DataScript's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses DataScript?
Developers
DataScript Integrations
DataScript's Features
- Database as a value
- Triple store model
- EAVT, AEVT and AVET indexes
- Multi-valued attributes
- Implicit joins
- Query over DB or regular collections
DataScript Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to DataScript?
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
