Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community (Alternative to Redis)
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community (Alternative to Redis)
Community maintainers, contributors, and users will continue collaborative development of an open source, in-memory data store under the new Valkey name.
Had no knowledge of what Valkey or Redis was, so: 'Valkey, an open source alternative to the Redis in-memory, NoSQL data store.'
At least that helped me a bit ;-)
They chose an interesting time to switch licensing. MS introduced Garnet, and now the LF has Valkey as a direct descendent. Strange times ahead.
From my understanding Redis hasn't been libre software since 2018 so the new competition from Microsoft might be a driver for the licensing decision.
Just FYI Drew DeVault also started a fork recently https://codeberg.org/redict/redict/