I've been working on something that may fit your criteria. The API is kafka-like and it's whole goal is to provide an easy to use local-first stream datastore/data-engine.
It currently only has support for Rust and Python clients but working on expanding to node(JS) and C/C++ in the future.
It currently only has support for Rust and Python clients but working on expanding to node(JS) and C/C++ in the future.
https://github.com/lucidmq/lucidmq