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Encryption At Rest

Encryption at rest is a feature that won't be immensely popular, but those who need it won't be able to use ESDB without it. Some certifications like HIPAA require encryption at rest. Encrypting data directly in the database is different compared ...
Alexey Zimarev 8 months ago in EventStoreDB / Compliance / Security 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 8 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 8 months ago in EventStoreDB / Dev experience 0 Planned

Tiered Storage and Archive

Introduction In today's data-driven world, the storage and management of events play a crucial role in various industries. However, storing all events indefinitely can be both space-intensive and costly. To address this challenge, we propose the i...
Alexey Zimarev 8 months ago in EventStoreDB / Operations / Performance 0

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 8 months ago in EventStoreDB / Dev experience 0

Automated Scavenging

Scavenging is a routine maintenance operation in ESDB, but it requires DB admins to run it either manually or using some automation like curl call to the DB API executed by cron. It's not only inconvinient, but also isn't optimal as scavenging nor...
Alexey Zimarev 8 months ago in EventStoreDB / Operations / Stability 0 Planned

Plugin for automated DB upgrade

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Alexey Zimarev 8 months ago in EventStoreDB 0

Realtime logs

Add an API (and UI) for looking at ESDB logs real-time for easier diagnostics. It should support filters by log level and message (regex), as well as the emitting subsystem.
Alexey Zimarev 8 months ago in EventStoreDB / Operations 0

Add catchup subscription stats to HTTP API

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Alexey Zimarev 8 months ago in EventStoreDB / Dev experience / Operations 0 Planned

Configurable write guarantees

Allow clients to control write guarantees. Right now, ESDB confirms the write when the leader has flushed data to disk, and the majority has the data in memory. Possible additional options: All followers have data in memory so they can do consiste...
Alexey Zimarev 8 months ago in EventStoreDB / Performance 0