Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore
4.4.2
Prefix Reserved
dotnet add package Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore --version 4.4.2
NuGet\Install-Package Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore -Version 4.4.2
<PackageReference Include="Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore" Version="4.4.2" />
<PackageVersion Include="Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore" Version="4.4.2" />
<PackageReference Include="Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore" />
paket add Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore --version 4.4.2
#r "nuget: Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore, 4.4.2"
#:package Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore@4.4.2
#addin nuget:?package=Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore&version=4.4.2
#tool nuget:?package=Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore&version=4.4.2
Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore
Derived. The behaviour described here is specified under
openspec/specs/. Those specifications are the source; this page explains and illustrates them.
License: MIT.
EF Core persistence for the Stratara event-sourced stack — PostgreSQL flavoured via Npgsql. pgvector types are mapped for a model that has vector columns; a model without them runs on a plain PostgreSQL server, no vector extension needed. Bundles four previously-separate Stratara projects into one NuGet because they always ship together:
| Folder | Contents | Old csproj |
|---|---|---|
EntityFrameworkCore/ |
shared EF conventions, value generators, IDbContext / IReadDbContext / IWriteDbContext / ITenantScopedDbContext / IIdentityDbContext, UnitOfWork base, DefaultDbResolver, NpgsqlDbContextServiceCollectionExtensions, DbContextMigrationUtility |
Stratara.EntityFrameworkCore |
WriteStore/ |
WriteDbContext, WriteUnitOfWork, event-stream/snapshot/event-chain/command-audit/outbox repositories + entity configurations |
Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore.WriteStore |
ReadStore/ |
ReadDbContext, ReadUnitOfWork, ProjectionsUnitOfWork, Tenant repository, projection entity configurations |
Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore.ReadStore |
IdentityStore/ |
Generic ASP.NET Identity IdentityDbContext + marker |
Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore.IdentityStore |
Everything lives under Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore and its sub-namespaces (.WriteStore, .ReadStore, .IdentityStore, .Abstractions, .Conventions, .Extensions, .HealthChecks, .Migration). The DI extensions sit in Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection, per the Microsoft convention, so they resolve without an extra using.
Why folded
WriteStore-without-ReadStore is not a real use case. EF conventions + value generators + UnitOfWork primitives are foundational for every other store. ASP.NET Identity glue follows the same EF Core conventions. Splitting into 4 NuGets that always ship together adds version-management noise (4× <PackageVersion> to keep in sync, transitive-resolution risk) without any consumer benefit.
If your application doesn't use ASP.NET Identity, simply don't reference IdentityDbContext-derived types — the rest of the package works without them.
Quick start
Derive your contexts from the generic base classes — the type argument is the context itself:
using Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore.WriteStore;
using Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore.ReadStore;
public sealed class MyAppWriteDbContext(DbContextOptions<MyAppWriteDbContext> options)
: WriteDbContext<MyAppWriteDbContext>(options);
public sealed class MyAppReadDbContext(DbContextOptions<MyAppReadDbContext> options)
: ReadDbContext<MyAppReadDbContext>(options);
Then register the Npgsql context factories and the write store. Each factory registration also
registers the unit of work over its context — IWriteUnitOfWork for the write side,
IProjectionsUnitOfWork / IReadUnitOfWork for the read side — unless the host registered its own.
The write-side unit of work also draws on ISessionContextProvider and ISecureJsonSerializer,
which AddSessionContext() and AddSecurity() provide (every worker composite applies both); with
those in place, this is all the store needs from the host:
// In your AppHost / Worker / Web project:
builder.Services
.AddNpgsqlWriteDbContextFactory<MyAppWriteDbContext>()
.AddNpgsqlReadDbContextFactory<MyAppReadDbContext>()
.AddWriteStore(builder.Configuration); // binds Stratara:EventSourcing options
Most hosts don't call these directly — the worker composites in Stratara.EventSourcing.WorkerDefaults
(AddCommandWorkerServices(), AddEventProjectionWorkerServices(), …) already compose AddWriteStore
for you. Reach for the explicit form when you build a host that none of the composites fit.
Renamed in 3.2.0, removed in 4.0.0: the write-side factory was
AddNpsqlWriteDbContextFactory(missing theg) through 3.1.x.AddNpgsqlWriteDbContextFactoryreplaced it in 3.2.0 and the old spelling stayed as an[Obsolete]alias until 4.0.0, which removed it. A host still on the old spelling adds theg; nothing else about the call changes.
Health checks
Two opt-in readiness checks plug into any IHealthChecksBuilder (they require the write store above to be registered):
builder.Services.AddHealthChecks()
.AddEventStoreHealthCheck() // write-side DB reachable?
.AddOutboxHealthCheck(degradedThreshold: 1_000, // outbox backlog depth
unhealthyThreshold: 10_000);
AddEventStoreHealthCheck()— probes write-store connectivity;Unhealthywhen the database cannot be reached.AddOutboxHealthCheck(degradedThreshold?, unhealthyThreshold?)— reports the pending outbox backlog under thependingdata key and escalates toDegraded/Unhealthywhen the count crosses the supplied thresholds (omit them to stay healthy while reachable).
Both are tagged ready by default, so they show up on a readiness endpoint rather than the liveness (live) one.
Dependencies
Stratara.Projections— for projection types used byProjectionsUnitOfWork.Stratara.Shared— for diagnostics + abstractions + resilience.Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL,EFCore.NamingConventions,Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore,Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore,Microsoft.Extensions.Diagnostics.HealthChecks,Pgvector.EntityFrameworkCore.
| Product | Versions Compatible and additional computed target framework versions. |
|---|---|
| .NET | net10.0 is compatible. net10.0-android was computed. net10.0-browser was computed. net10.0-ios was computed. net10.0-maccatalyst was computed. net10.0-macos was computed. net10.0-tvos was computed. net10.0-windows was computed. |
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net10.0
- EFCore.NamingConventions (>= 10.0.1)
- Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore (>= 10.0.11)
- Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore (>= 10.0.11)
- Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection (>= 10.0.11)
- Microsoft.Extensions.Diagnostics.HealthChecks (>= 10.0.11)
- Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting (>= 10.0.11)
- Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL (>= 10.0.3)
- Pgvector.EntityFrameworkCore (>= 0.3.0)
- Stratara.Projections (>= 4.4.2)
- Stratara.Shared (>= 4.4.2)
NuGet packages (4)
Showing the top 4 NuGet packages that depend on Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore:
| Package | Downloads |
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Stratara.Infrastructure
Infrastructure glue for the Stratara framework — authorization decorators, configuration providers, and DI composition helpers that wire Mediator, Outbox, Identity, and EF Core into a hosted app. |
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Stratara.EventSourcing.WorkerDefaults
Worker-host wiring composites for the Stratara event-sourced stack. IHostApplicationBuilder extensions (AddBackendServices, AddCommandWorkerServices, AddHeavyCommandWorkerServices, AddEventProjectionWorkerServices, AddEventStreamHashWorkerServices, AddSagaWorkerServices, AddOutboxWorkerServices, and AddCommandServices, AddEventProjectionServices and AddSagaServices without the bus-fed workers) bundle the per-concern DI calls so each worker host opts in with one line. |
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Stratara.Testing.EntityFrameworkCore
Spin up the real Stratara event-sourcing write stack (EventSource, aggregation, snapshots, the EF Core write store) against a shared in-memory SQLite database in one call — production code paths, no Postgres, no Docker. Builds on Stratara.Testing's in-memory doubles. |
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Stratara.Orleans.EntityFrameworkCore
Entity Framework Core persistence for the Stratara Orleans execution model — the commit-order readers (native PostgreSQL and a portable per-partition counter), the projection checkpoint store and the store-schema additions they need. |
GitHub repositories
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| Version | Downloads | Last Updated |
|---|---|---|
| 4.4.2 | 48 | 10/2/2026 |
| 4.4.1 | 354 | 9/29/2026 |
| 4.4.0 | 158 | 9/27/2026 |
| 4.3.1 | 157 | 9/25/2026 |
| 4.3.0 | 320 | 9/23/2026 |
| 4.2.0 | 192 | 9/18/2026 |
| 4.1.1 | 131 | 9/16/2026 |
| 4.1.0 | 125 | 9/16/2026 |
| 4.0.4 | 940 | 9/14/2026 |
| 4.0.3 | 195 | 9/3/2026 |
| 4.0.2 | 619 | 9/3/2026 |
| 4.0.1 | 298 | 9/2/2026 |
| 4.0.0 | 185 | 8/31/2026 |
| 4.0.0-preview.1 | 79 | 8/31/2026 |
| 3.4.0 | 165 | 8/28/2026 |
| 3.3.0 | 142 | 8/25/2026 |
| 3.2.3 | 147 | 8/22/2026 |
| 3.2.2 | 144 | 8/14/2026 |
| 3.2.1 | 148 | 8/2/2026 |
| 3.2.0 | 164 | 7/18/2026 |
A release about a flag that cost too much. Every host sharing the replay coordination state over Redis
asked Redis, with a blocking round trip on the calling thread, whether a replay was active — and the
Orleans execution model asked on every hot path, eight to ten times per command on a host with three
projections, inside grain turns. On a two-core host that was enough to starve the thread pool and time
the Redis connection out, surfacing as failed catch-ups, lagging read models and failed grain
registrations although no replay ever ran. The answer now comes from memory. No migration is needed;
one optional setting is new.
### Fixed
- **No path waits on Redis to learn whether a replay is active.** The Redis-backed replay state answers
`IsReplayActive` from a field. A change made in the host itself is seen there at once; a change made
elsewhere — a replay that began or ended in another host, or a marking that lapsed — is announced over
a channel beside the replay-request channel and seen within its latency, and every host re-reads the
marking every `ProjectionReplay:RefreshSeconds` regardless, as the safety net for a lost announcement.
The Orleans execution model's command dispatcher, bundle dispatcher, store readers and drain, and the
bus dispatchers, make no Redis call for it any more. Nothing changes for a host without Redis, whose
state was in process already, nor for a host that registers its own `IProjectionReplayState`.
### Added
- **`ProjectionReplayOptions.RefreshSeconds`** (default 5), read from the `ProjectionReplay` section
like the lease. It bounds how long a host answers from a replay marking that changed elsewhere where the
announcement was lost. Refused when the host starts at zero or below, and at or above
`LeaseSeconds`, with an `OptionsValidationException` naming `ProjectionReplay:RefreshSeconds`.
- **Log events `104_015` to `104_018`.** A host that cannot refresh the replay marking from Redis says
so once at Warning (`104_015`) and keeps its last answer; `104_016` at Information says it reads the
marking again. A host that cannot subscribe to the marking's announcements says so once at Warning
(`104_017`), sees a change on the refresh period only, and `104_018` says it is subscribed again.
### Changed
- **A host that cannot reach Redis keeps its last answer about the replay.** Before, every dispatch and
every catch-up on such a host failed with the connection's exception. Now they proceed on what the host
last learned — initially that no replay is active — and the loss is logged once. The replay stays
correct regardless: on the Orleans execution model the readers are paused by the rebuild and the
replay themselves, and apply the store from the beginning once more when the replay ends.
- **Rolling upgrade.** A host on a release before this one announces nothing when it starts or ends a
replay, so a host on this release sees that replay at the refresh period rather than at once. The
marking, its key and its lease are unchanged, so the two releases share one replay state.