62 points

As someone that’s a major fan of the AGPL-3.0 license, even I have a hard time believing that this would bring people back to Redis.

It’s an upward battle from here on because they were the ones who chose to demolish their customer’s trust.

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Serious question- what do you use instead? Memcached is rock solid but has only like 5% of Redis’ feature set.

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43 points

I think most people switched to Valkey which is a Redis fork:

https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey

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6 points

Thanks for the info!!

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6 points

I switched to keydb years ago, also a redis fork.

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7 points

The forks of proper redis.

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I don’t use Redis or any alternative to be honest.

If I were pressed to choose; I’d honestly consider choosing Redis as the new AGPL-3.0 license is actually impossible to revert if development continues.

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It’s the usual combination of AGPL + CLA, they’re allowed to relicense to any license of their choice at any moment. They’ve had the CLA in place since the previous SSPL license and the more-previous BSD license naturally allows that kind of stuff.

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Valkey is already better

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33 points

Do they expect people, but more importantly organizations and companies, trusting them again? Why would they use Redis over the independent fork Valkey?

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They’ll stick to Valkey for the license alone. The AGPL is a good license, but the 3 clause BSD license is even more permissive which companies leeching off open-source like a lot more than the GPL licenses.

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Support for one. Very often you need 24/7 support with an SLA for every part of the stack.

Maybe features? Not familiar with them, but often happens that enterprise features are behind an enterprise license. Stuff like LDAP integration, encryption with KMIP management, Kerberos, etc.

Third, management tooling. Monitoring, optimization, backups, debugging, what have you.

Most of the lemmy audience skews to Libre Software, but enterprise land doesn’t care about all of the reasons listed in this thread, they were on the commercial license to begin with.

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21 points

Nah, redis is dead to most devs, the forks are far more popular with indie devs now.

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I’m working to move what I have to Valkey, no more rugpull games tyvm.

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We did it Redis!!!

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