--- title: How KurrentDB Complements MongoDB | daily.dev description: KurrentDB and MongoDB serve complementary roles in application architecture. KurrentDB acts as an event-native source of truth, storing immutable business... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-kurrentdb-complements-mongodb-kjgfuwdag twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How KurrentDB Complements MongoDB | daily.dev og:description: KurrentDB and MongoDB serve complementary roles in application architecture. KurrentDB acts as an event-native source of truth, storing immutable business... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-kurrentdb-complements-mongodb-kjgfuwdag og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kJGfuWdag.png og:image:alt: How KurrentDB Complements MongoDB og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How KurrentDB Complements MongoDB **[Event Store](https://daily.dev/sources/eventstore)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary KurrentDB and MongoDB serve complementary roles in application architecture. KurrentDB acts as an event-native source of truth, storing immutable business events in an append-only log with full auditability. MongoDB serves as a scalable read model or projection layer, optimized for flexible querying and horizontal scaling. The integration pattern involves a projector service that subscribes to KurrentDB events via catch-up subscriptions and updates MongoDB documents accordingly, enabling high-fidelity data storage alongside performant, distributed reads. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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