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NoSQL and SQL - we might have a better solution for your Event Store!

By Ralf Pelz

April 15, 2022

2 min

One of the most frequently asked questions is how AxonIQ compares to other players such as NoSQL and SQL database vendors in the messaging and event store space. Users of the open-source Axon Framework often start with available database solutions to store data, messages, and events. In this blog,...

Implementing Axon Framework’s Microservices Design Patterns

By Mitchell Herrijgers

May 24, 2022

3 min

It's often easier to learn from the real-life perspectives of users than from solutions providers. At our 2020 conference, a customer team discussed both the theory and their reality of implementing...

NoSQL and SQL - we might have a better solution for your Event Store!

By Ralf Pelz

April 15, 2022

2 min

One of the most frequently asked questions is how AxonIQ compares to other players such as NoSQL and SQL database vendors in the messaging and event store space. Users of the open-source Axon...

Why AxonIQ Cloud?

By Sara Torrey

February 22, 2022

2 min

AxonIQ Cloud Axon Server - part of the Axon Platform is our zero-configuration, purpose-built Event Store and Message Bus. AxonIQ Cloud delivers Axon Server as a hosted service and abstracts away set...

AxonIQ Academy Frequently Asked Questions

By Milen Dyankov

July 18, 2021

4 min

If you were to sneak-peek into AxonIQ’s internal chat, you’d quickly notice that the following comic from xkcd.com pops up once in a while in quite a few channels.

Axon and Akka - How do they compare?

By Vijay Nair

December 15, 2020

5 min

The Command Query Responsibility Separation(CQRS) and Event Sourcing (ES) patterns advocate the building of applications by treating it as a System of Events plus State rather than just as a System...

Axon and reactive systems

By Milen Dyankov

October 19, 2020

2 min

There is no need to introduce Axon Framework (and furthermore Axon Server) to the Java developers passionate about DDD, CQRS and/or Event Sourcing. In that space, there are not many tools out there...

Axon and Kafka - How does Axon compare to Apache Kafka?

By Vijay Nair

May 14, 2020

8 min

Introduction One of the most common discussion points that come up regularly in interactions with Customers/Prospects/Forums is how does Axon compare to Apache Kafka? Can one do the job of the...

5 key benefits of migrating to Axon 4

By Steven van Beelen

February 19, 2020

7 min

In Axon's 10 year history (you’ve read that right, it turned 10 in January 2020!) we have striven to take all received feedback to keep improving the look and feel. Not only usability for developers...

Why would I need a specialized Event Store?

By Greg Woods

July 9, 2019

5 min

When it comes to options and flexibility, Axon Framework gives you a huge selection of options for where to store your events, from traditional RDBMS options like PostgreSQL or MySQL to NoSQL...

We’ve done SOA, why should we care about Microservices?

By Bert Laverman

April 24, 2019

8 min

When talking to IT managers and Enterprise Architects on the subject of Microservices I sometimes get asked what the difference is between Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) or Microservices...

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