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Event metadata format

Leverage map style metadata, used in cloud events that propagate as HTTP/message headers. Having event metadata as JSON sounded like a good idea at a time, but it creates a lot of friction when things need to be retrieved or added, like tracing he...
Alexey Zimarev 11 months ago in EventStoreDB / Dev experience 0

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

Server-side snapshots

Stream snapshots is one of the commonly used techniques to improve performance when reading long streams. Currently, developers are required to build snapshotting on their own, although it's quite clear how to do it. ESDB can support server-side s...
Alexey Zimarev 11 months ago in EventStoreDB / Dev experience 0