Kafka as an Event Store - is it Good Enough?
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Event Sourcing and CQRS are two popular patterns for implementing a Microservices architectures. With Event Sourcing we do not store the state of an object, but instead store all the events impacting its state. Then to retrieve an object state, we have to read the different events related to a certain object and apply them one by one. CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) on the other hand is a way to dissociate writes (Command) and reads (Query). Event Sourcing and CQRS are frequently grouped and used together to form something bigger. While it is possible to implement CQRS without Event Sourcing, the opposite is not necessarily correct. In order to implement Event Sourcing, an efficient Event Store is needed. But is that also true when combining Event Sourcing and CQRS? And what is an event store in the first place and what features should it implement? This presentation will first discuss what functionalities an event store should offer and then present how Apache Kafka can be used to implement an event store. But is Kafka good enough or do specific event store solutions such as AxonDB or Event Store provide a better solution?
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- 1. gschmutz Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? Guido Schmutz Kafka Summit New York – 2.4.2019 gschmutz http://guidoschmutz.wordpress.com
- 2. gschmutz Agenda 1. How do we build applications traditionally? 2. CQRS & Event Sourcing 3. What exactly is an Event Store? 4. Implementing Event Store 5. Summary Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough?
- 3. gschmutz Guido Schmutz Working at Trivadis for more than 22 years Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador & Oracle ACE Director Consultant, Trainer, Solution Architect for Java, Oracle, Microservices and Big Data / Fast Data Head of Trivadis Architecture Board More than 30 years of software development experience Contact: guido.schmutz@trivadis.com Blog: http://guidoschmutz.wordpress.com Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/gschmutz Twitter: gschmutz 151st edition Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough?
- 4. gschmutz How do we build applications traditionally? Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough?
- 5. gschmutz Data Access Layer Monolithic Applications – using Layered Architecture User Interface Account UI Service Layer { } Account API Database Customer API REST Customer UI Domain Model Account DAO { }REST Customer DAO DB Model Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough?
- 6. gschmutz Data Access Layer Monolithic Applications – using Layered Architecture User Interface Account UI Service Layer { } Account API Database Customer API REST Customer UI Domain Model Account DAO { }REST Customer DAO DB Model Object/Relational Impedance Mismatch • Traditional approach to persistence • Store current state • CRUD operations • Coupling between read & write • Increased Complexity Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough?
- 7. gschmutz • Traditional approach to persistence • Store current state • CRUD operations • Coupling between read & write • Increased Complexity Data Access Layer Monolithic Applications – using Layered Architecture User Interface Account UI Service Layer { } Account API Database Customer API REST Customer UI Domain Model Account DAO { }REST Customer DAO DB Model Object/Relational Mapping SELECT acc.id, acc.account_number, acc.account_type.id, acct.name, cus.first_name, cus.last_name, addr.street, addr.city FROM account_t acc , account_type_t acct , customer_t cus , cust_adr_t cusa , address_t addr WHERE acc.account_type_id = acct.account_type_id AND adc.customer_id = cus.customer_id AND cusa.customer_id = cus.customer_id AND cusa.address_id = addr.address_id AND cusa.type = 'MAIN' Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough?
- 8. gschmutz Microservices - using Layered Architecture Microservices … • are responsible for their data • might use NoSQL instead of RDBMS • often still use traditional approach to persistence • “Data silos” do no longer support database join • keep synchronous communication to a minimum Customer Microservice { } Customer API Customer Customer Logic Account Microservice { } Account API Account Account Logic Product Microservice { } Product API Product Product Logic Finance App Finance UI UI Logic GUI REST REST REST Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? sync request/response async, event pub/sub
- 9. gschmutz Domain Driven Design (DDD) – Concepts Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? Domain Objects – hold the state of the application Entity – Domain Objects with an identity Value Object – an immutable type that is distinguishable only by the state of its properties and has no identity Aggregate - A cluster of domain objects that can be treated as a single unit Aggregate Root – one object of aggregate is root object. Any reference from outside goes through aggregate root Aggregate Root Account Aggregate Customer Aggregate Aggregate Root
- 10. gschmutz Events Distribute to all handlers strong ordering req’s No results Queries Route with load balancing Sometimes scatter-gather Provide result Three mechanisms through which services can interact Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? Commands Route to single handler Use consistent hashing Provide Result
- 11. gschmutz Microservices with Event-driven communication Customer Microservice { } Customer API Customer Customer Logic Account Microservice { } Order API Order Order Logic Product Microservice { } Product API Product Product Logic REST REST REST Pub / Sub Customer Mat View Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? sync request/response async, event pub/sub Finance App Finance UI UI Logic GUI This is Event Streaming and not really Event Sourcing
- 12. gschmutz CQRS & Event Sourcing Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough?
- 13. gschmutz Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) Optimize for write and read differently API is split between • commands - trigger changes in state • queries - provide read access to the state Still using CRUD pattern, but separates ”R” from CRUD Might involve eventual consistency between write and read model Data Storage Write Model Read Model (read-only) Service Command API Query API App UI Projection Handler UI Logic Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? publish command query project read insert update delete 1 2 3 4
- 14. gschmutz Event Sourcing – Persist state-changing events and not state Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? # Timestamp Aggregate ID Event Event Payload 1 10 A32B3DE AccountCreated { id: 123, accountType: Savings} 2 20 A32B3DE MoneyDeposited { id: 123, amount: 1000} 3 100 A32B3DE MoneyDeposited { id: 123, amount: 2000} 4 2000 A32B3DE MoneyWithdrawn { id: 123, amount: 500} AccountCreated id: 123 accountType: Savings MoneyDeposited id: 123 amount: 1000 MoneyDeposited id: 123 amount: 2000 MoneyWithdrawn id: 123 amount: 500 10 20 100 2000
- 15. gschmutz Event Sourcing persists the state of an aggregate as a sequence of state-changing events Each event describes a state change that occurred to the aggregate in the past new event is appended to the list of events an aggregate’s current state is reconstructed by replaying the events => a.k.a ”rehydration” Rehydration also needed for queries Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? Event Store ServiceApp UI UI Logic Command API & Handler Event Handler(s) Service Subscribe publish publish apply (append) REST Data Storage trigger replycommand command 1 2 3 4 5 5
- 16. gschmutz Event Sourcing - ”Rehydrate” State Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? 1. Create an empty Aggregate object 2. Read all events stored for that Aggregate from event store 3. Apply each event to the Aggregate object in the correct order AccountCreated id: 123 accountType: Savings MoneyDeposited id: 123 amount: 1000 MoneyDeposited id: 123 amount: 2000 MoneyWithdrawn id: 123 amount: 500 Account <empty> Account id: 123 accountType: Savings balance: 0 Account id: 123 accountType: Savings balance: 3000 transactions: [+1000, +2000] Account id: 123 accountType: Savings balance: 2500 transactions:[+1000, +2000, -500] Account id: 123 accountType: Savings balance: 1000 transactions: [+1000] applyTo applyTo applyTo applyTo
- 17. gschmutz Event Sourcing – Write Path CreateAccount command Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? Create an event for every state change of Aggregate Persist the stream to event store (preserving event order) AccountCreated id: 123 accountType: Savings 10 # Timestamp Aggregate ID Event Event Payload 1 10 A32B3DE AccountCreated { id: 123, accountType: Savings} Account Aggregate <empty>
- 18. gschmutz Event Sourcing – Write Path DepositMoney command Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? Create an event for every state change of Aggregate Persist the stream to event store (preserving event order) # Timestamp Aggregate ID Event Event Payload 1 10 A32B3DE AccountCreated { id: 123, accountType: Savings} 2 20 A32B3DE MoneyDeposited { id: 123, amount: 1000} AccountCreated id: 123 accountType: Savings MoneyDeposited id: 123 amount: 1000 10 20 Account Aggregate id: 123 accountType: Savings balance: 0
- 19. gschmutz Event Sourcing – Write Path DepositMoney command Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? Create an event for every state change of Aggregate Persist the stream to event store (preserving event order) # Timestamp Aggregate ID Event Event Payload 1 10 A32B3DE AccountCreated { id: 123, accountType: Savings} 2 20 A32B3DE MoneyDeposited { id: 123, amount: 1000} 3 100 A32B3DE MoneyDeposited { id: 123, amount: 2000} AccountCreated id: 123 accountType: Savings MoneyDeposited id: 123 amount: 1000 MoneyDeposited id: 123 amount: 2000 10 20 100 Account Aggregate id: 123 accountType: Savings balance: 1000
- 20. gschmutz Event Sourcing – Write Path WithdrawMoney command Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? Create an event for every state change of Aggregate Persist the stream to event store (preserving event order) # Timestamp Aggregate ID Event Event Payload 1 10 A32B3DE AccountCreated { id: 123, accountType: Savings} 2 20 A32B3DE MoneyDeposited { id: 123, amount: 1000} 3 100 A32B3DE MoneyDeposited { id: 123, amount: 2000} 4 2000 A32B3DE MoneyWithdrawn { id: 123, amount: 500} AccountCreated id: 123 accountType: Savings MoneyDeposited id: 123 amount: 1000 MoneyDeposited id: 123 amount: 2000 MoneyWithdrawn id: 123 amount: 500 10 20 100 2000 Account Aggregate id: 123 accountType: Savings balance: 3000
- 21. gschmutz Event Sourcing - Potential Benefits Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? 1. Subscribe to changes from other Aggregates 2. Examine a historical record of every change that has ever been applied on the model 3. Use the event store data for trend, forcast and other business analytics 4. Consider “what if” questions by replaying events to Aggregates which have experimental enhancements 5. Patch errors by adding ”correction” events (if it is legally allowed) 6. Perform “undo” and “redo” operations by replying varying sets of Events
- 22. gschmutz Event Sourcing & CQRS Event sourcing is commonly combined with the CQRS pattern Combines best of Event Sourcing and CQRS Project events published by Event Store into Read Model (Materialized Views) Write Model and Read Model might only support eventual consistency Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? AggregateApp UI UI Logic Command API & Handler Event Handler(s) REST Data Storage Query API Read Model (read-only) { } REST Projection Handler publish command query read project 1 Event Store publish apply (append) trigger reply 2 3 4 5 5 6
- 23. gschmutz What is an Event Store? Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough?
- 24. gschmutz Event Store Capabilities Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? 1. Append Events efficiently 2. Read aggregate’s events in order 3. Full Sequential Read (over all aggregates) 4. Consistent writes 5. Event versioning 6. Subscribable event stream 7. Correction events (O) 8. Ingestion & event time, bi-temporal (O) 9. Adhoc-Query on event store (O) 10. Snapshot Optimization (O) 11. High-Availability and Reliability (O)
- 25. gschmutz Implementing an Event Store Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough?
- 26. gschmutz Event Store Implementations Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? • Event Store (https://eventstore.org/) – by Greg Young • Axon Framework & Relational DB (https://axoniq.io/) - by Axon IQ • Axon DB (https://axoniq.io/) - by Axon IQ • Eventuate (https://eventuate.io/) – by Eventuate.io • Serialized (https://serialized.io/) – by Serialized.io • Build your own …. • Apache Kafka ???
- 27. gschmutz Implementing an Event Store: using Kafka Broker Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough?
- 28. gschmutz Kafka as an Event Store Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? 1. One, single-partitioned Kafka topic per Aggregate 2. One, partitioned Kafka topic per Aggregate Type 3. One single, highly partitioned Kafka topic for all Aggregate Types Should you put several Event Types in the same Kafka topic?: https://www.confluent.io/blog/put-several-event-types-kafka-topic/
- 29. gschmutz 1) One, single-partitioned Kafka topic per Aggregate Instance Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? This will guarantee that the events are stored in order Reading state of an aggregate is as simple as reading a topic from offset 0 Not really feasible as there will be just too many topics needed Kafka Customer Aggregate Account Aggregate
- 30. gschmutz 2) One, partitioned Kafka topic per Aggregate Type Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? Required number of partitions is dependent on number of aggregate instances Events are produced with aggregate-id as the key guarantees that events are stored in order For reading state of an aggregate, all data of all aggregate instances have to be scanned => slow Possible optimization: only read the partition where aggregate instance is stored Kafka Customer Aggregate Account Aggregate
- 31. gschmutz 3) One single, highly partitioned Kafka topic for all Aggregate Types Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? Required number of partitions is dependent on number of aggregate types * instances Events are produced with aggregate-id as the key guarantees that events are stored in order For reading state of an aggregate, all data of all aggregate types & instances have to be scanned => really slow Possible optimization: only read the partition where aggregate instance is stored Kafka Customer Aggregate Account Aggregate
- 32. gschmutz Kafka as an Event Store Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? # Capability Kafka Broker 1 Append events efficiently yes 2 Read aggregate’s events in order not efficiently 3 Full sequential Read yes 4 Consistent Writes no 5 Event Versioning yes (if Avro is used) 6 Subscribeable Event Stream yes 7 Correction events (O) no 8 Event time & ingestion time, aka. Bi-temporal (O) no, but extra time can be passed in header 9 Snapshot Optimization (O) no 10 Ad-Hoc Query on Events (O) no 11 High-Availability and Reliability (O) yes
- 33. gschmutz Event Store Kafka is not a Database … a Database is not Kafka We can use Kafka to run part of our own Event Store implementation add a database to get missing capabilities But be careful with Dual Write! • Would need distributed transactions • Otherwise no guarantee for both writes to happen Application { } API DatabaseBiz Logic REST Event Hub Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? Other App Consumer
- 34. gschmutz Event Store Kafka is not a Database … a Database is not Kafka We can use Kafka to run our own Event Store implementation adding a database to get missing capabilities But be careful with Dual Write! • Would need distributed transactions • Otherwise no guarantee for both writes to happen Application { } API DatabaseBiz Logic REST Event Hub Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? Other App Consumer
- 35. gschmutz Event StoreEvent Store Two solutions for avoiding «dual write» Write Event first then consume it to write it to database Write through database (CDC, outbox design pattern) Application { } API Database Biz Logic REST Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? Event Hub Other App Biz Logic Application { } API Database REST Biz Logic CDC Event Hub CDC Connector Other App Biz Logic Publish
- 36. gschmutz Implementing an Event Store: using Axon Framework Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough?
- 37. gschmutz Axon Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? • Spring Boot with Axon Framework for Application • MongoDB for Event Store • Kafka Broker for Event Bus • Kafka Streams or KSQL for Projection Handler • Kafka Connect / Spring Boot to persist in read model • NoSQL and/or RDBMS for read model AggregateApp UI UI Logic Command API & Handler Event Handler(s) REST Data Storage Query API Read Model (read-only) { } REST Projection Handler publish command query read project Event Store publish apply (append) trigger reply
- 38. gschmutz Event Sourcing with Axon Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? Account Events Account Command Account Aggregate Account Command Response Account App Event Store Account Customer Projection Command Handler Event Handler Account Query Projection Handler Query Handler Account Query Account Query Response Customer Event https://github.com/gschmutz/various-demos/tree/master/event-sourcing
- 39. gschmutz Event Sourcing with Axon - Aggregate Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? @Aggregate public class AccountAggregate{ @AggregateIdentifier private String id; private BigDecimal balance; private String forCustomerId; private String accountType; @CommandHandler ... @EventSourcingHandler ...
- 40. gschmutz Event Sourcing with Axon - Command Handler Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? @CommandHandler public AccountAggregate(AccountCreateCommand command) { Assert.hasLength(command.getForCustomerId(), "CustomerId must have a value"); Assert.hasLength(command.getAccountType(), "AccountType must have a value"); ... apply(new AccountCreatedEvent(command.getId(), command.getForCustomerId(), command.getAccountType(), new BigDecimal("0"))); }
- 41. gschmutz Event Sourcing with Axon – Command Handler Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? @CommandHandler public void on(WithdrawMoneyCommand command) { Assert.isTrue(command.getAmount() > 0, "Amount should be a positive number"); if(command.getAmount().compareTo(this.balance) > 0 ) { throw new InsufficientBalanceException( "Insufficient balance. Trying to withdraw:" + command.getAmount() + ", but current balance is: " + this.balance); } apply(new MoneyWithdrawnEvent(command.getId(), command.getAmount())); }
- 42. gschmutz Event Sourcing with Axon – Event Handler Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? @EventSourcingHandler public void handle(AccountCreatedEvent event) { id = event.getId(); forCustomerId = event.getForCustomerId(); accountType = event.getAccountType(); balance = event.getBalance(); } @EventSourcingHandler public void handle(MoneyWithdrawnEvent event) { balance = balance.subtract(event.getAmount()); }
- 43. gschmutz Event Sourcing with Axon – Projection Handler Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? public class AccountQueryController { @Autowired private AccountRepository accRepo; @EventHandler public void on(AccountCreatedEvent event,@Timestamp Instant instant) { Account account = new Account(event.getId(),event.getBalance(), event.getAccHolder(),event.getAccHolderName(), instant.toString()); accRepo.insert(account); } @EventHandler public void on(MoneyDepositedEvent event,@Timestamp Instant instant) { Account account = accRepo.findByAccountNo(event.getId()); account.setBalance(account.getBalance().add(event.getAmount())); account.setLastUpdated(instant.toString()); accRepo.save(account); }
- 44. gschmutz Axon Fwk with Axon DB Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? • Spring Boot with Axon Framework for Application • Axon DB for Event Store and Event Bus • Spring Boot for Projection Handler • Spring Boot to persist in read model • NoSQL and/or RDBMS for read model AggregateApp UI UI Logic Command API & Handler Event Handler(s) REST Data Storage Query API Read Model (read-only) { } REST Projection Handler publish command query read project Event Store publish apply (append) trigger reply
- 45. gschmutz Axon as an Event Store Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? # Capability Axon Framework Axon Framework & Axon DB 1 Append events efficiently yes yes 2 Read aggregate’s events in order yes yes 3 Full sequential Read yes yes 4 Consistent Writes yes yes 5 Event Versioning yes yes 6 Subscribeable Event Stream yes yes 7 Correction events (O) no no 8 Event time & ingestion time, aka. Bi-temporal (O) no no 9 Snapshot Optimization (O) yes yes 10 Ad-Hoc Query on Events (O) yes yes 11 High-Availability and Reliability (O) possible yes
- 46. gschmutz Implementing an Event Store: using Kafka and Kafka Streams Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough?
- 47. gschmutz Kafka & Kafka Streams Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? Kafka Streams with State for Event Store Kafka Broker for Event Bus Kafka Streams or KSQL for Projection Handler No reply of events, current snapshot is held in state store AggregateApp UI UI Logic Command API & Handler Event Handler(s) REST Data Storage Query API Read Model (read-only) { } REST Projection Handler publish command query read project Event Store publish apply (append) trigger reply
- 48. gschmutz Account Event Handler Event Sourcing with Kafka Streams Account Created Money Deposited Money Withdrawn Command Account Command Handler Command Response Account API Account Snapshot Account Snapshot Customer Snapshot Account Customer API Account Customer Projection Account Customer Projector Account Customer Rec persist https://github.com/gschmutz/various-demos/tree/master/event-sourcing
- 49. gschmutz Kafka & Kafka Streams as an Event Store Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough? # Capability Kafka & Kafka Streams 1 Append events efficiently yes 2 Read aggregate’s events in order no (snapshot state only holds current snapshot) 3 Full sequential Read no 4 Consistent Writes yes (only one event per aggregate in flight) 5 Event Versioning yes (if Avro used) 6 Subscribeable Event Stream yes 7 Correction events (O) no 8 Event time & ingestion time, aka. Bi-temporal (O) no 9 Snapshot Optimization (O) yes (snapshot state only) 10 Ad-Hoc Query on events (O) limited (KSQL, Presto on Kafka, Drill on Kafka, …) 11 High-Availability and Reliability (O) yes
- 50. gschmutz Summary Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough?
- 51. gschmutz Summary • Event Sourcing and CQRS might be more natural to business people than IT => we are used to work with “CRUD based persistence” • Event Sourcing provides history and logging for free • Kafka Broker alone is really “just” Event Streaming, not Event Sourcing • Axon Framework supports the implementation of Event Sourcing applications with Pluggable Event Store and Event Bus implementations • Axon DB implements an Event Store and an Event Bus • Kafka and Kafka Streams with State Store supports event sourcing in a ”streaming fashion” Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough?
- 52. gschmutz Technology on its own won't help you. You need to know how to use it properly. Kafka as an Event Store – is it Good Enough?