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How to accomplish a (full) outer join?

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Difficulty
5/5
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25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
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Stale
Tech stack
clojure
Domain
databases

Research direction

Read the linked Datomic Outer Joins article and compare its entity-navigation and extension-function approaches with the Datascript API. Check whether Datascript provides a maybe function or another documented mechanism; done means documenting a supported approach or clarifying that full outer joins are unavailable.

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Description

Hi there,

I am trying to evaluate if Datascript is the right tool for a problem I'm trying to solve.. and I was wondering how I might accomplish a (full) outer join or equivalent.

For Datomic I found the following article, which mentions two approaches (entity navigation or extension function), and I was wondering if either of these would work with Datascript:

https://support.cognitect.com/hc/en-us/articles/215581518-Outer-Joins

For example, regarding the extension function approach, I didn't find any reference to a maybe function in the Datascript api.

Thanks!

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