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Seems similar to what Elastic did few years ago [1]. I kinda understand their motivation. It's not theirs originally, but they had antirez working on it for 5 y
by YeBanKo 3y ago
Seems similar to what Elastic did few years ago [1]. I kinda understand their motivation. It's not theirs originally, but they had antirez working on it for 5 years as their employee. They are making some contributions [2], I wish GH had a way to see such an insight by company affiliation. On the other hand, AWS and likes can easily fork pre-license-change version and spin it into its own product. However, I am fairly certain that AWS Elasticache is already such a thing – their own fork that diverged enough from the upstream and they are not eager to share.
So I view it as every major cloud provider with redis offering has its own fork. Except that Redis Labs also owns the original name. But it can go on as a stand alone project, like MariDB was spawn off after MySQL acquisition by Oracle.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25776657 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25776657
[2] https://github.com/redis/redis/graphs/contributors?from=2019-11-09&to=2024-03-28&type=c https://github.com/redis/redis/graphs/contributors?from=2019...
- AntonyGarand 3y agoAWS did not launch their own spinoff alone, but instead joined the Valkey project by the Linux Foundation[0], alongside many other major contributors: > Industry participants, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson, and Snap Inc. are supporting Valkey. They are focused on making contributions that support the long-term health and viability of the project so that everyone can benefit from it. Seems like a good alternative to a single company's spinoff: Many major providers working on this same project should result in everyone benefiting from it. https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launc...
- YeBanKo 3y agoI don't have any inside knowledge, but I can't believe that they don't have an internal fork of Redis for Elasticache.