Re:Show HN: SierraDB – A Distributed Event Store Built in Rust
by tqwewe on Friday October 24, 2025 @10:57PM
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Yes exactly, I heard from an existing KurrentDB customer that the weird licensing change was actually a deal breaker causing them to move away from KurrentDB despite the migration pains.
I think a community, open source built project in Rust has been a missing piece I can hopefully help to solve.
> there's absolutely no clear cut way of approaching it for new projects
That's definitely my experience - there's no open source "batteries-included" event store where you can just `docker compose up` and start sourcing your events right away. (Maybe KurrentDB née EventStoreDB might offer something like this? But unfortunately, it has a weird license and feels heavily pivoted towards SaaS). And if you want to implement it yourself, a lot of the writing about event stores comes from the the Enterprise Design Patterns™ world.