The Race to Replace Redis

Many Redis alternatives started appearing after Redis announced that they would change their license and not be open source anymore. The in-memory database was very popular in the open source world, and many developers are now looking for alternatives. Among existing alternatives like KeyDB or Garnet, new ones emerged as a direct result of the license change. Valkey is the most popular new fork and is backed by The Linux Foundation as well as by AWS, Google, Snap, Ericsson and Oracle.

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Software architects and web developers loved to use Redis as a fast caching solution in their infrastructure. But with the license change many developers search for open source alternatives to Redis. Some alternatives are simple forks of the old redis, some implement a fast key-value store solution while others provide a full-blown database experience based on SQL. One of the open source maintainers of Redis, made a fork that was quickly supported by the linux foundation. After the initial announcement, many companies started to support the project financially. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot6bNg-nZ3M