Elasticsearch as eventstore for CQRS

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Hi.

Recently I came around across an interesting new application design pattern
called CQRS (see http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CQRS.html).
CQRS manages the application state as stream of events (event sourcing).

Axon Framework (http://www.axonframework.org/) is one popular
implementation of a CQRS framework. With Axon, events can be stored
on the filessystem, a database or... MongoDB.

As soon a I read this I had an idea. MongoDB is a document oriented
database. elasticsearch is also document oriented. Both frameworks
act very similar on an technical level (of course the terminology is
completely different).

So my questions now:

Could elasticsearch be used an eventstore for axon (or generally for CQRS)?
Is there anyone out there that has already tried that. Any practical
experience?
Are there any technical obstacles in elasticsearch that would prevent using
it as eventstore?

Thanks for your feedback
Roger

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Elasticsearch is great for storing and handling events, but more in a way
that Cube does - Cube. Basically, making sense of
events, analysis etc.

With CQRS you need to have a way to construct objects out of events, aka
projections or snaphots. You write events and query objects that are formed
out of it. There is no such clear separation between read and write stores
in Elasticsearch. You could, obviously, have some sort of a cron job that
continously runs and creates an object snapshot out of the events and
stores it under a different type or index, but that feels quite a bit
artificial.

There may be a way to achieve proper snapshotting via a plugin but I
haven't thought about that previously. I'll be happy to look into it when I
got some time.

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Roger Villars villars.roger@gmail.comwrote:

Hi.

Recently I came around across an interesting new application design
pattern called CQRS (see CQRS).
CQRS manages the application state as stream of events (event sourcing).

Axon Framework (http://www.axonframework.org/) is one popular
implementation of a CQRS framework. With Axon, events can be stored
on the filessystem, a database or... MongoDB.

As soon a I read this I had an idea. MongoDB is a document oriented
database. elasticsearch is also document oriented. Both frameworks
act very similar on an technical level (of course the terminology is
completely different).

So my questions now:

Could elasticsearch be used an eventstore for axon (or generally for CQRS)?
Is there anyone out there that has already tried that. Any practical
experience?
Are there any technical obstacles in elasticsearch that would prevent
using it as eventstore?

Thanks for your feedback
Roger

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