I have been working on a distributed Datalog engine à la Datomic on top of object storage. The system is called Triplox. I am using https://github.com/slatedb/slatedb at the storage layer. The main ideas are roughly the following (in no particular order):

- Object storage centric. In its final version Triplox should simply need a single (or likely two) S3 bucket(s) for deployment.

- The Datomic data model and API as main inspiration.

- A client/server architecture.

- Incremental Datalog queries. You can dynamically subscribe and unsubscribe from live Datalog queries. This is the most experimental part of Triplox and will need more effort to scale. Standard connectives (`and`, `or`, `not`) are already supported. You can find an intro here: https://triplox.xyz/incremental-queries/overview/.

The incremental query angle is likely the most interesting aspect for people considering such a solution. If you have an incremental Datalog problem or are working on sync engines, Triplox might be of interest.

Website: https://triplox.xyz/

Wow cool, commenting so I remember.

There was a team that did something like this, I saw a talk about it once. But I think they did in JS with Datomic in browser that somebody wrote. I might update this comment later with the relevant links.

But its really cool idea and I think very useful for some applications.