I'm Patric, and I just hit a major milestone - Genesis DB 1.0.(1) is officially production-ready.
Why I built this: Existing event sourcing tools felt too heavy, opinionated, or expensive. I wanted something that matches how developers actually think about events - simple, transparent, and powerful.
What Genesis DB is:
- Event sourcing database engine written in Go
- HTTP + JSON interface (no proprietary protocols)
- CloudEvents native with zero vendor lock-in
- One-command backups/restores
- Built-in Prometheus metrics & structured logging
Major features that made it to 1.0:
- Smart validation - Preconditions act as gatekeepers, enforcing business logic before writes hit the database
- Schema registration - Automatic event validation for type safety and data consistency
- Native GDPR compliance - One-command user data deletion, full data portability, built-in audit trails
- Battle-tested performance - Thousands of events/second, zero data loss, stable under load
- ...
The journey:
- Started because I love event-driven architectures but hated the tooling complexity
- A few versions, each adding features
- Now processing real production workloads across multiple industries
Want to try it? - Free tier: 10,000 events for testing/small projects (I’m not here to be the biggest cost factor in any business. If you’ve got special requirements, let’s talk.)
- Self-host or use the managed platform (coming soon)
Full docs at https://docs.genesisdb.io
Thanks for reading!