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The first stable release of Redict, a fork of the Redis in-memory database
under a copyleft license, has been announced.

You may be wondering why Redict would be of interest to you,
particularly when compared with Valkey,
another Redis fork that was announced on Thursday.

In technical terms, we are focusing on stability and long-term
maintenance, and on achieving excellence within our current
scope. We believe that Redict is near feature-complete and that it
is more valuable to our users if we take a conservative stance to
innovation and focus on long-term reliability instead. This is in
part a choice we’ve made to distinguish ourselves from Valkey,
whose commercial interests are able to invest more resources into
developing more radical innovations, but also an acknowledgement of
a cultural difference between our projects, in that the folks
behind Redict place greater emphasis on software with a finite
scope and ambitions towards long-term stability rather than
focusing on long-term growth in scope and complexity.