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We built a dedicated event store – here's why Kafka and Postgres weren't enough

by goloroden on 6/3/25, 5:08 AM with 1 comments

  • by goloroden on 6/3/25, 5:08 AM

    After years of building systems with CQRS and event sourcing, we kept running into the same roadblocks: Missing concurrency control, unreliable ordering, complex snapshotting, no native replays. So we built a database purpose-built for event-sourced systems – and wrote up how it compares to Kafka, Postgres, MongoDB, and others.