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This is lack of abstraction. You can certainly fix this in kafka using various hacks, but its implementation of an abstraction you can get in a standard db for
by UK-Al05 6y ago
This is lack of abstraction. You can certainly fix this in kafka using various hacks, but its implementation of an abstraction you can get in a standard db for free.
Funnily enough a list of events is pretty much what a transaction log is in a standard db. Although the events have more of a business meaning. In many ways event sourcing is removing a lot of abstraction databases give you.
- mrkeen 6y ago> a standard db Yes, ACID works for one database. Many databases? Not so much. > Funnily enough a list of events is pretty much what a transaction log is in a standard db. When I "SELECT Balance WHERE user = 12345", I usually just get back a balance, I don't get back the transaction log. If nothing else, adopting the Kafka model gets your teammates to append updates to your ledger, rather than changing values in-place.
- UK-Al05 6y agoYes that my point. You get half of a database. The transaction log. Not the up to date state.