[mrkeen]

> a standard db

Yes, ACID works for one database. Many databases? Not so much.

> Funnily enough a list of events is pretty much what a transaction log is in a standard db.

When I "SELECT Balance WHERE user = 12345", I usually just get back a balance, I don't get back the transaction log.

If nothing else, adopting the Kafka model gets your teammates to append updates to your ledger, rather than changing values in-place.

[UK-Al05]

Yes that my point. You get half of a database. The transaction log. Not the up to date state.