Understanding data stores

Added in eventcatalog@2.59.0

In EventCatalog data stores (containers) represent data stores that are used in your architecture (e.g. databases, caches, objectStore, searchIndexes, etc).

Using the data store resource in EventCatalog you can define how your services read/write to data stores in your architecture, helping your teams understand how your services interact with data in your architecture.

Data stores are containers (not docker containers!)

Rather than create a new data resource directly, we choose to call these containers.

This follows the C4 naming convention for containers (not docker containers!) in your architecture. To learn more about containers you can read the c4 model.

For now we only use the data store from c4 model.