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Elasticache is a totally closed source implementation that does not contribute back to the community. How did this situation change your decision?

• dilap 8y ago
  what would they contribute back? elasticache is just vanilla redis. aws is selling you compute time and ram.
  • scrollaway 8y ago
    > elasticache is just vanilla redis Only at the interface level. Elasticache is a heavily forked Redis. There's a reason it's several versions behind.
    • dilap 8y ago
      that makes sense. i guess i had just assumed it was laziness. :-) out of curiosity, do you have any idea what their mods might be?
      • scrollaway 8y ago
        I never bothered to really look into it -- I suspect it's semi-public information. If I had to guess, lots of internal changes to make Redis behave better in AWS's architecture to do with containerization, EC2, S3/EBS, maintenance automation related stuff, instrumentation, etc. Oh actually definitely some stuff related to their redis clustering system.
        • buzer 8y ago
          They also support encryption in transit. That part was open sourced recently, but hasn't made it into upstream yet (though it most likely will from sounds of it).