Simplifying ETL with Clojure & Datomic

Abstract

Clojure and Datomic provide a compelling feature set for ETL jobs:

• full access to the power of the JVM
• data-oriented functional programming
• interactive, dynamic development
• a powerful, dynamic specification language in Clojure.spec
• careful separation of concerns via transducers
• ubiquitous strong namespaces
• reified transactions
• a universal schema

In this talk, I will explore how Clojure and Datomic can be used for ETL by converting the MusicBrainz dataset from SQL to Datomic.

Resources

• Slides from Nov 2016
• Code