[$] The race to replace Redis

Post Syndicated from jzb original https://lwn.net/Articles/966631/

On March 21, Redis Ltd. announced that the Redisin-memory data store” project would now be
released under non-free, source-available licenses, starting with Redis 7.4. The
news is unwelcome, but not entirely unexpected. What is unusual with this situation is
the number of Redis alternatives to choose from; there are at least
four options to choose as a replacement for those who wish to stay
with free software, including a pre-existing fork called KeyDB and the Linux Foundation’s newly-announced Valkey project. The question now is which one(s)
Linux distributions, users, and providers will choose to take its place.