KurrentDB is a database that's engineered for modern software applications and event-driven architectures. Its event-native design simplifies data modeling and preserves data integrity while the integrated streaming engine solves distributed messaging challenges and ensures data consistency.
- What is Kurrent
- What is KurrentDB
- What is Kurrent Cloud
- Licensing
- Documentation
- Getting started with KurrentDB
- Getting started with Kurrent Cloud
- Client libraries
- Deployment
- Communities
- Contributing
- Building KurrentDB
- More resources
What is Kurrent
Event Store – the company and the product – are rebranding as Kurrent.
- The flagship product will be referred to as “the Kurrent event-native data platform” or “the Kurrent platform” or simply “Kurrent"
- EventStoreDB will be referred to as KurrentDB
- Event Store Cloud will now be called Kurrent Cloud
Read more about the rebrand in the rebrand FAQ.
What is KurrentDB
KurrentDB is a database that's engineered for modern software applications and event-driven architectures. Its event-native design simplifies data modeling and preserves data integrity while the integrated streaming engine solves distributed messaging challenges and ensures data consistency.
Download the latest version. For more product information visit the website.
What is Kurrent Cloud?
Kurrent Cloud is a fully managed cloud offering that's designed to make it easy for developers to build and run highly available and secure applications that incorporate KurrentDB without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure. You can provision KurrentDB clusters in AWS, Azure, and GCP, and connect these services securely to your own cloud resources.
For more details visit the website.
Licensing
View KurrentDB's licensing information.
Docs
For guidance on installation, development, deployment, and administration, see the User Documentation.
Getting started with KurrentDB
Follow the getting started guide.
Getting started with Kurrent Cloud
Kurrent can manage KurrentDB for you, so you don't have to run your own clusters. See the online documentation: Getting started with Kurrent Cloud.
Client libraries
This guide shows you how to get started with KurrentDB by setting up an instance or cluster and configuring it. KurrentDB supports the gRPC protocol.
KurrentDB supported clients
- Python: pyeventsourcing/kurrentdbclient
- Node.js (javascript/typescript): kurrent-io/KurrentDB-Client-NodeJS
- Java: (kurrent-io/KurrentDB-Client-Java
- .NET: kurrent-io/EventStore-Client-Dotnet
- Go: kurrent-io/KurrentDB-Client-Go
- Rust: kurrent-io/KurrentDB-Client-Rust
- Read more in the gRPC clients documentation
Community supported clients
- Elixir: NFIBrokerage/spear
- Ruby: yousty/event_store_client
Read more in the documentation.
Legacy clients (support ends with EventStoreDB v23.10 LTS)
Deployment
- Kurrent Cloud - steps to get started in Kurrent Cloud.
- Self-managed - steps to host KurrentDB yourself.
Communities
Join our global community of developers.
Contributing
Development is done on the master branch.
We attempt to do our best to ensure that the history remains clean and to do so, commits are automatically squashed into a single logical commit when pull requests are merged.
If you want to switch to a particular release, you can check out the release branch for that particular release. For example:
git checkout release/v25.0
Building KurrentDB
KurrentDB is written in a mixture of C# and JavaScript. It can run on Windows, Linux and macOS (using Docker) using the .NET Core runtime.
Prerequisites
Once you've installed the prerequisites for your system, you can launch a Release build of KurrentDB as follows:
dotnet build -c Release
To start a single node, you can then run:
dotnet run --project ./src/KurrentDB/KurrentDB.csproj -c Release -e ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Development -- --dev --db ./tmp/data --index ./tmp/index --log ./tmp/log
Alternatively, you can run the KurrentDB - Dev DB profile pre-configured in launchSettings.json:
dotnet run --project ./src/KurrentDB/KurrentDB.csproj -c Release -lp "KurrentDB - Dev DB"
Running the tests
You can launch the tests as follows:
dotnet test --solution KurrentDB.slnx
Build KurrentDB Docker image
You can also build a Docker image by running the command:
docker build --tag mykurrentdb . \
--build-arg CONTAINER_RUNTIME={container-runtime}
--build-arg RUNTIME={runtime}
For instance:
docker build --tag mykurrentdb . \
--build-arg CONTAINER_RUNTIME=noble \
--build-arg RUNTIME=linux-x64
Note: Because of the Docker issue, if you're building a Docker image on Windows, you may need to set the DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0 environment variable. For instance, running in PowerShell:
$env:DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0; docker build --tag mykurrentdb . `
--build-arg CONTAINER_RUNTIME=noble `
--build-arg RUNTIME=linux-x64
Currently, we support the following configurations:
- Noble:
CONTAINER_RUNTIME=nobleRUNTIME=linux-x64
You can verify the built image by running:
docker run --rm mykurrentdb --insecure --what-if