Overview

The purpose of Akka Projections is described in Use Cases.

In Akka Projections you process a stream of events or records from a source to a projected model or external system. Each event is associated with an offset representing the position in the stream. This offset is used for resuming the stream from that position when the projection is restarted.

As the source you can select from:

For the offset storage you can select from:

Offset in Cassandra
Offset in a relational DB with JDBC
Offset in a relational DB with R2DBC
Offset in a relational DB with Slick (community-driven module)

Those building blocks are assembled into a Projection. You can have many instances of it automatically distributed and run in an Akka Cluster.

To see a complete example of an Akka Projections implementation review the Getting Started Guide or the Microservices with Akka tutorial.

Dependencies

Akka Projections consists of several modules for specific technologies. The dependency section for each module describes which dependency you should define in your project.

Events from Akka Persistence
State changes from Akka Persistence
Messages from Kafka
Offset in Cassandra
Offset in a relational DB with JDBC
Offset in a relational DB with Slick (community-driven module)

All of them share a dependency to akka-projection-core:

sbt

libraryDependencies += "com.lightbend.akka" %% "akka-projection-core" % "1.6.5"

Maven

<properties>
  <scala.binary.version>2.13</scala.binary.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.lightbend.akka</groupId>
    <artifactId>akka-projection-core_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
    <version>1.6.5</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

Gradle

def versions = [
  ScalaBinary: "2.13"
]
dependencies {
  implementation "com.lightbend.akka:akka-projection-core_${versions.ScalaBinary}:1.6.5"
}

Project Info: Akka Projections Core
Artifact	com.lightbend.akka akka-projection-core 1.6.5 Snapshots are available
JDK versions	Eclipse Temurin JDK 11 Eclipse Temurin JDK 17 Eclipse Temurin JDK 21
Scala versions	2.13.15, 3.3.4
JPMS module name	akka.projection.core
License	BUSL-1.1
Readiness level	Supported, support is available from Lightbend Since 1.0.0, 2020-09-10
Home page	https://akka.io
API documentation	API (Scaladoc)
Forums	Lightbend Discuss
Release notes	GitHub releases
Issues	GitHub issues
Sources	https://github.com/akka/akka-projection

Akka version

Akka Projections requires Akka 2.10.0 or later. See Akka’s Binary Compatibility Rules for details.

It is recommended to use the latest patch version of Akka. It is important all Akka dependencies are in the same version, so it is recommended to depend on them explicitly to avoid problems with transient dependencies causing an unlucky mix of versions. For example:

sbt

val AkkaVersion = "2.10.0"
libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
  "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-cluster-sharding-typed" % AkkaVersion,
  "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-persistence-query" % AkkaVersion,
  "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-discovery" % AkkaVersion
)

Gradle

def versions = [
  AkkaVersion: "2.10.0",
  ScalaBinary: "2.13"
]
dependencies {
  implementation "com.typesafe.akka:akka-cluster-sharding-typed_${versions.ScalaBinary}:${versions.AkkaVersion}"
  implementation "com.typesafe.akka:akka-persistence-query_${versions.ScalaBinary}:${versions.AkkaVersion}"
  implementation "com.typesafe.akka:akka-discovery_${versions.ScalaBinary}:${versions.AkkaVersion}"
}

Maven

<properties>
  <akka.version>2.10.0</akka.version>
  <scala.binary.version>2.13</scala.binary.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.typesafe.akka</groupId>
    <artifactId>akka-cluster-sharding-typed_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
    <version>${akka.version}</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.typesafe.akka</groupId>
    <artifactId>akka-persistence-query_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
    <version>${akka.version}</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.typesafe.akka</groupId>
    <artifactId>akka-discovery_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
    <version>${akka.version}</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

Transitive dependencies

The table below shows akka-projection-core’s direct dependencies and the second tab shows all libraries it depends on transitively.

Direct dependencies

Organization	Artifact	Version
com.typesafe.akka	akka-actor-typed_2.13	2.10.0
com.typesafe.akka	akka-persistence-query_2.13	2.10.0
com.typesafe.akka	akka-protobuf-v3_2.13	2.10.0
com.typesafe.akka	akka-stream_2.13	2.10.0
org.scala-lang	scala-library	2.13.15

Dependency tree

com.typesafe.akka    akka-actor-typed_2.13    2.10.0    BUSL-1.1
    com.typesafe.akka    akka-actor_2.13    2.10.0    BUSL-1.1
        com.typesafe    config    1.4.3    Apache-2.0
        org.scala-lang    scala-library    2.13.15    Apache-2.0
    com.typesafe.akka    akka-slf4j_2.13    2.10.0    BUSL-1.1
        com.typesafe.akka    akka-actor_2.13    2.10.0    BUSL-1.1
            com.typesafe    config    1.4.3    Apache-2.0
            org.scala-lang    scala-library    2.13.15    Apache-2.0
        org.scala-lang    scala-library    2.13.15    Apache-2.0
        org.slf4j    slf4j-api    2.0.16    MIT License
    org.scala-lang    scala-library    2.13.15    Apache-2.0
    org.slf4j    slf4j-api    2.0.16    MIT License
com.typesafe.akka    akka-persistence-query_2.13    2.10.0    BUSL-1.1
    com.typesafe.akka    akka-persistence_2.13    2.10.0    BUSL-1.1
        com.typesafe.akka    akka-actor_2.13    2.10.0    BUSL-1.1
            com.typesafe    config    1.4.3    Apache-2.0
            org.scala-lang    scala-library    2.13.15    Apache-2.0
        com.typesafe.akka    akka-stream_2.13    2.10.0    BUSL-1.1
            com.typesafe.akka    akka-actor_2.13    2.10.0    BUSL-1.1
                com.typesafe    config    1.4.3    Apache-2.0
                org.scala-lang    scala-library    2.13.15    Apache-2.0
            com.typesafe.akka    akka-protobuf-v3_2.13    2.10.0    BUSL-1.1
            org.reactivestreams    reactive-streams    1.0.4    MIT-0
            org.scala-lang    scala-library    2.13.15    Apache-2.0
        org.scala-lang    scala-library    2.13.15    Apache-2.0
    com.typesafe.akka    akka-protobuf-v3_2.13    2.10.0    BUSL-1.1
    com.typesafe.akka    akka-stream_2.13    2.10.0    BUSL-1.1
        com.typesafe.akka    akka-actor_2.13    2.10.0    BUSL-1.1
            com.typesafe    config    1.4.3    Apache-2.0
            org.scala-lang    scala-library    2.13.15    Apache-2.0
        com.typesafe.akka    akka-protobuf-v3_2.13    2.10.0    BUSL-1.1
        org.reactivestreams    reactive-streams    1.0.4    MIT-0
        org.scala-lang    scala-library    2.13.15    Apache-2.0
    org.scala-lang    scala-library    2.13.15    Apache-2.0
com.typesafe.akka    akka-protobuf-v3_2.13    2.10.0    BUSL-1.1
com.typesafe.akka    akka-stream_2.13    2.10.0    BUSL-1.1
    com.typesafe.akka    akka-actor_2.13    2.10.0    BUSL-1.1
        com.typesafe    config    1.4.3    Apache-2.0
        org.scala-lang    scala-library    2.13.15    Apache-2.0
    com.typesafe.akka    akka-protobuf-v3_2.13    2.10.0    BUSL-1.1
    org.reactivestreams    reactive-streams    1.0.4    MIT-0
    org.scala-lang    scala-library    2.13.15    Apache-2.0
org.scala-lang    scala-library    2.13.15    Apache-2.0

See the individual modules for their transitive dependencies.

Akka Classic

Akka Projections can be used with the new Actor API or the classic Actor API. The documentation samples show the new Actor API, and the Akka Classic page highlights how to use it with the classic Actor API.

Contributing

Please feel free to contribute to Akka and Akka Projections by reporting issues you identify, or by suggesting changes to the code. Please refer to our contributing instructions to learn how it can be done.

We want Akka to strive in a welcoming and open atmosphere and expect all contributors to respect our code of conduct.