Recently saw Martin Kleppman's talk, "Is Kafka a Database" [1]. He pointed out this article on the ideas he and his colleagues have been exploring on distributed data stores. The talk and the article are great and I thought it was worth sharing! This [2] talk also goes into more details of the thinking behind all this.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuE6JvQE_CY
[2] https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-ou...