You're right. Nothing about CQRS demands any kind of asynchronization or distributed system. It is quite simply a system where you have different models for upd

You're right. Nothing about CQRS demands any kind of asynchronization or distributed system. It is quite simply a system where you have different models for updating and querying the system. You don't even need to have an event store for it to be a CQRS system, but it makes so much sense that I have a hard time imaging using CQRS without and ES of some kind.