@conaw what are you putting in the value of each datom?

let’s say at least 1/2 of them are db/refs to other datoms, and half are strings that are about a paragraph in length

well then yeah, i'd say your talking many millions for 100MB of memory

interesting

you could test it pretty easy

@tonsky do you think a datascript app would perform comfortably well with many millions of datoms? Has anyone seen this in the wild?

yeah with generators

just transact a bunch of data into a db

good point

from my experience (with far less than millions of datoms) you'll get different perf characteristics with the different APIs exposed by datascript

e.g. queries vs pull vs datoms

but i don't know how they scale differently

i'd assume, for instance, that the query building part of running a query doesn't change with additional datoms

interesting

just try it out 🙂

yeah I’ll report back, 🙂

pragmatically speaking though, you're probably not going to be rendering and updating millions of DOM elements

nope, this is just a thought experiment on how large an app could get with #nobackend