Although tangential to your question, I feel you might enjoy presentations by Rich Hickey wherein he describes traditional database architectures and presents t

Although tangential to your question, I feel you might enjoy presentations by Rich Hickey wherein he describes traditional database architectures and presents the whys and wherefores behind Datomic. For example: [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cym4TZwTCNU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cym4TZwTCNU [2] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/datomic-functional-database http://www.infoq.com/presentations/datomic-functional-databa...