Datomic's covering indexes are heavily based on their built-in ordering, and doesn't really have much flexibility in different ways to sort and walk data.
Personally, I'm a fan of hybrid database approaches. In the world of serverless, I really enjoy the combo of DynamoDB and Elasticsearch, for example, where Dynamo handles everything that's performance critical, and Elasticsearch handles everything where dynamic queries (and ordering, and aggregation, and ....) is required. I've never done this with Datomic, but I'd imagine mirroring the "current" value of entities without historical data is relatively easy to set up.
Datomic's covering indexes are heavily based on their built-in ordering, and doesn't really have much flexibility in different ways to sort and walk data.
Personally, I'm a fan of hybrid database approaches. In the world of serverless, I really enjoy the combo of DynamoDB and Elasticsearch, for example, where Dynamo handles everything that's performance critical, and Elasticsearch handles everything where dynamic queries (and ordering, and aggregation, and ....) is required. I've never done this with Datomic, but I'd imagine mirroring the "current" value of entities without historical data is relatively easy to set up.