Valkey is Rapidly Overtaking Redis
Redis is taking it in the chops, as both maintainers and customers move to the Valkey Redis fork.
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Redis is taking it in the chops, as both maintainers and customers move to the Valkey Redis fork.
Cloud firms want a version of Redis that's still open to managed service resale.
The Linux Foundation last week announced that it will host Valkey, a fork of the Redis in-memory data store. Valkey is backed by AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson and Snap. At the time of the license change, Redis Labs CEO Rowan Trollope said he "wouldn't be surprised if Amazon sponsors a fork," as the new license requires commercial agreements to offer Redis-as-a-service, making it incompatible with the standard definition of "open source."
AWS and Google Cloud rarely back an open source fork together.
First, they build programs with open source. Then they build their business with open source. Then they abandon it and cash out.