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Projections next-gen

Move custom and standard projections to Connectors.
Alexey Zimarev 11 months ago in EventStoreDB / Performance / Stability 0 Planned

Backup and restore

Implement backup and restore as database functions.
Alexey Zimarev 11 months ago in EventStoreDB / Operations 0 Planned

Support running ESDB on ARM64 Linux distributions

Substantial population of developers use Apple computers with ARM chip, and they currently cannot run ESDB locally even in Docker. We do have an "alpha" image but nobody gives any guarantees that everything works there. By providing a supported im...
Alexey Zimarev 11 months ago in EventStoreDB / Dev experience / Operations 0 Planned

Store some configuration in the database

ESDB is primarily configured using the config file, which is located on each cluster node. Some features (projections, connectors) are configured in the database itself. It can be confusing to understand where things are configured and why some co...
Alexey Zimarev 11 months ago in EventStoreDB / Configuration / Operations 0 Planned

Support authorisation when reading from $all

Currently, reads and subscriptions to $all require admin access, which isn't good for security. Supporting auth for $all will have performance impact when ACLs are used, but in combination with policies it could be fast enoguh because policies, un...
Alexey Zimarev 11 months ago in EventStoreDB / Dev experience / Security 0 Planned

Handle backpressure

ESDB can be overloaded with read/write operations and it has no limitations enforced on the edge to prevent this. The idea is to set the connection limit (in general or per operation) and deny requests when the limit is exceeded. It will improve t...
Alexey Zimarev 11 months ago in EventStoreDB / Operations / Stability 0 Planned

Stream authorisation policies

ESDB has access control lists (ACLs) as the primary method to achieve granular (per stream) authorisation. However, ACLs need to be set up per stream, which is a burden for developers. Also, if the auth rules change, all the streams need to get th...
Alexey Zimarev 11 months ago in EventStoreDB / Dev experience / Security 0 Planned

Add catchup subscription stats to HTTP API

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Alexey Zimarev 11 months ago in EventStoreDB / Dev experience / Operations 0 Planned

Multiple databases

Allow having multiple logs (databases) physically separated from each other. That would include different set of users, authorisation rules, etc. It would enable: deleting a specific database instead of cleaning up the whole cluster separate data ...
Alexey Zimarev 11 months ago in EventStoreDB / Dev experience / Operations / Security 0 Planned

SLA for Reads

When reading from followers, allow setting time SLA for the read operation to ensure you get fresh enough data. It helps offloading the read load without imposing too much risk of reading very stale data.
Alexey Zimarev 11 months ago in EventStoreDB / Dev experience 0 Planned