Yeap it's interesting. Redis starts as a hobby project by Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka antirez) who eventually gets sponsored by VMWare as the project grows in po

Yeap it's interesting. Redis starts as a hobby project by Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka antirez) who eventually gets sponsored by VMWare as the project grows in popularity. Then, another company that is offering a hosted Redis and support hires antirez and so becomes the 'offical' Redis company. In 2020 antirez leaves and goes and writes a novel (called "Wohpe") instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redis_(company)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redis_(company)#History Antirez hasn't been involved in Redis in a long time. This is a common enough pattern when open-source projects leave their roots and then, eventually, alienate theiropen source base. Perhaps the time is ripe for Antirez to come back and shepherd one of the forks, a bit like mariadb?