I have seen some stuff where a streaming tool (Kafka or whatever) is used to just ship all updates to a database to certain clients. But I think this is a dubi

I have seen some stuff where a streaming tool (Kafka or whatever) is used to just ship all updates to a database to certain clients. But I think this is a dubious architecture since it comes with basically all the downsides of a database that many applications all want to use besides the write contention one.