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The ideas of datalog are making a slow comeback. For example, datalog is a query language for Datomic DB.

I'm aware of Datomic but I feel like it will be a while before it becomes "the standard".

Datalog is also quite actively used in ontology based data access where Datalog rules are used as mappings between databases and ontologies (see e.g. [1]). Variants and extensions of Datalog is also research actively in the field of answer set programming[2], with many usable implementations.

[1] - http://ontop.inf.unibz.it/ [2] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_set_programming

Does your nick has anything to do with Burzum?

We use Datalog every day in a React-Native application, via the datascript db (https://github.com/tonsky/datascript). Has been a very positive experience so far.

Thinking in "facts" / binary relations is itself a refreshing approach.

The Datomic database is a great datalog implementation