"A new project to resume development on the formerly open-source Redis project. We're calling it #Valkey, since it's a twist on the key-value datastore."
Today more companies are announcing their support of the Valkey community (the group that includes committed developers previously working on the OSS version of the core Redis engine): Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, Chainguard, Heroku, Huawei, Percona, and Verizon.
The Valkey community is announcing their first source code release: version 7.2.5. Now available for download from GitHub and usable via the project's official Docker image.
The whole Redis fiasco has resulted in Valkey emerging which will likely leave Redis behind with MongoDB and MySQL which were also taken over by companies which tried to monetize them. Long story short, a VC back company assumed control of the Redis project which was Open Source and promised the project creator to keep it that way, but broke that promise. It has been forked and major cloud companies are funding the fork which is called Valkey. #Redis#Valkey
"#Redis broke with the community that helped it grow and left them stranded. This community is now unbound and will continue to use and contribute to the project as they have always done, and with more freedom. "
"The @linuxfoundation
chose community over sponsors," @peterzaitsev said. "I was excited to see it just took days. It was like, boom: 'Redis, you choose to [mess with] the community, then Linux Foundation stands behind community.' I think that was wonderful."