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.
Key Features
Database as a valueTriple store modelEAVT, AEVT and AVET indexesMulti-valued attributesImplicit joinsQuery over DB or regular collections
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DataScript Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to DataScript?
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.
Hazelcast
With its various distributed data structures, distributed caching capabilities, elastic nature, memcache support, integration with Spring and Hibernate and more importantly with so many happy users, Hazelcast is feature-rich, enterprise-ready and developer-friendly in-memory data grid solution.
Aerospike
Aerospike is an open-source, modern database built from the ground up to push the limits of flash storage, processors and networks. It was designed to operate with predictable low latency at high throughput with uncompromising reliability – both high availability and ACID guarantees.
