Some index descriptions in the following sections respectfully quoted from the Datomic documentation.
Datomic’s database log is a recording of all transaction data in historic order, organized for efficient access by transaction. The Log is therefore an efficient source of finding data by transaction time.
The Molecule Log implementation takes two arguments to define a range of transactions between from (inclusive) and
until (exclusive). One or more generic attributes are then added to the Log molecule to define what data to return. The
following standard generic attributes can be combined to match the required data structure:
e - Entity id (Long)a - Attribute (String)v - Value (Any)t - Transaction point in time (Long alternatively Int)tx - Transaction entity id (Long)txInstant - Transaction wall-clock time (java.util.Date)op - Operation: assertion / retraction (Boolean true/false)Contrary to Datomic’s Log implementation, Molecule returns data as a flat list of tuples of data that matches the generic attributes in the Log molecule. This is to transparently sharing the same semantics as other molecules.
// Data from transaction t1 (inclusive) until t4 (exclusive)
Log(Some(t1), Some(t4)).t.e.a.v.op.get === List(
(t1, e1, ":Person/name", "Ben", true),
(t1, e1, ":Person/age", 41, true),
(t2, e2, ":Person/name", "Liz", true),
(t2, e2, ":Person/age", 37, true),
(t3, e1, ":Person/age", 41, false),
(t3, e1, ":Person/age", 42, true)
)
If the from argument is None data from the beginning of the log is matched:
Log(None, Some(t3)).v.e.t.get === List(
(t1, e1, ":Person/name", "Ben", true),
(t1, e1, ":Person/age", 41, true),
(t2, e2, ":Person/name", "Liz", true),
(t2, e2, ":Person/age", 37, true)
// t3 not included
)
If the until argument is None data from until the end of the log is matched:
Log(Some(t2), None).v.e.t.get === List(
// t1 not included
(t2, e2, ":Person/name", "Liz", true),
(t2, e2, ":Person/age", 37, true),
(t3, e1, ":Person/age", 41, false),
(t3, e1, ":Person/age", 42, true)
)