CNCF and Synadia announced on 1st May, that NATS project will continue to thrive in the cloud native open source ecosystem of the CNCF with Synadia’s continued support and involvement.
Actually when I started looking into a solution before creating my mine, Datomic was the one I settled on.
But it's licensing kin'of put me of. I'm more into FOSS solutions.
But I agree, Datomic shall make the list... I'll update it.
I'll checkout neversleep, is it stable for Dev spikes.
I tested it a lot via generative tests but it hasn't been tested for a long time in production at all. I am not working actively on it at the moment though, so cannot guarantee a smooth out of the box experience. The instructions on github should work though if you follow them exactly.
There is no big and reputable company when it comes to competition. Discuss at business level and provide all offfering details as to your customers. That shall give a fair idea.
Detailed code exploration, shall be a no.
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