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Mastering Akka
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Mastering Akka

by Christian Baxter
October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
436 pages
11h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 4. Making History with Event Sourcing

When it comes to the persistence needs of an application, the most common, tried, and true approach is to model data in a relational database. Following this approach has been the de facto way to store data until recently, when NoSQL (and to a lesser extent NewSQL) started to chip away at the footholds of relational database dominance. There's nothing wrong with storing your application's data this way—it's how we initially chose to do so for the bookstore application using PostgreSQL as the storage engine.

This kind of approach to storing your data can answer the "What" question, as in "What is the current state of a particular entity?". But there's another question that is sometimes just as important, ...

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ISBN: 9781786465023