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I thought people stopped using Redis and moved on to a fork because of licensing issues. Is this true?

by untech 2y ago

miningape 2y ago
No, like yes they pissed a lot of people off and some people did migrate. But a large majority of "enterprise" customers didn't, it's just too much effort for a service you are paying for anyway.
- benatkin 2y ago
  I dunno, MongoDB is as if it's gone, due to a license change in 2018. So asking if redis should be thought of the same as MongoDB is a legitimate question. I just gave valkey-container its 100th star https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-container https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-container
  - jeremycarter 2y ago
    "As if it's gone"? Is this a joke?
    - cowsandmilk 2y ago
      Mongodb is gone; everyone stopped using it. The publicly traded company behind it with thousands of employees and over a billion in revenue is a figment of your imagination.
      - benatkin 2y ago
        It's kind of like how Java still exists but doesn't commonly run in browsers in the form of a Java Applet. It exists behind the scenes and I'm sure many who used to use it now use it indirectly.
    - benatkin 2y ago
      It's sort of as if it's gone. TFA is about what I no longer recognize as what I used to mean when I talked about redis. Since the license change the project with the trademark no longer fits that concept. Valkey does. I'm not sure where I ca find something that fit my old context of MongoDB.
- tuananh 2y ago
  valkey is still dropin compatible now so migration is pretty easy. plus aws elasticache give you like 30% price cut when you switch to valkey powered engine ; which make it a pretty good incentive.
silverwind 2y ago
Only AWS did, and their fork is already lacking several important new features like HEXPIRE.
- slig 2y ago
  >`HEXPIRE` Finally. Hope they implement this soon at Valkey.
  - reconditerose 2y ago
    We're working on it, you can follow the progress here: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/issues/640 https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/issues/640.
    - slig 2y ago
      Great, thank you so much!
    - OPoncz 2y ago
      Its available on Dragonfly https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly Here is the docs https://www.dragonflydb.io/docs/command-reference/hashes/hexpire https://www.dragonflydb.io/docs/command-reference/hashes/hex...
- reconditerose 2y ago
  There is a lot of adoption of Valkey. I know it's fun to hate on AWS, but there is a wider shift than just them. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-memorystore-for-valkey https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-... https://upcloud.com/blog/now-supporting-valkey https://upcloud.com/blog/now-supporting-valkey https://aiven.io/blog/introducing-aiven-for-valkey https://aiven.io/blog/introducing-aiven-for-valkey https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/valkey-now-available/ https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/valkey-now-available/ https://elest.io/open-source/valkey https://elest.io/open-source/valkey
davidgl 2y ago
We've switched to https://github.com/microsoft/Garnet https://github.com/microsoft/Garnet and been very happy
Manfred 2y ago
We used Redis in a project where we also manage hosting on a semi-public cloud infrastructure and I had troubled figuring out if license change applied to our situation. We didn't want to pay a lawyer to figure this out, so we switched to Valkey.

I thought people stopped using Redis and moved on to a fork because of licensing issues. Is this true?

by untech 2y ago

I thought people stopped using Redis and moved on to a fork because of licensing issues. Is this true?

No, like yes they pissed a lot of people off and some people did migrate. But a large majority of "enterprise" customers didn't, it's just too much effort for a service you are paying for anyway.

benatkin 2y ago
I dunno, MongoDB is as if it's gone, due to a license change in 2018. So asking if redis should be thought of the same as MongoDB is a legitimate question. I just gave valkey-container its 100th star https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-container https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-container
- jeremycarter 2y ago
  "As if it's gone"? Is this a joke?
  - cowsandmilk 2y ago
    Mongodb is gone; everyone stopped using it. The publicly traded company behind it with thousands of employees and over a billion in revenue is a figment of your imagination.
    - benatkin 2y ago
      It's kind of like how Java still exists but doesn't commonly run in browsers in the form of a Java Applet. It exists behind the scenes and I'm sure many who used to use it now use it indirectly.
  - benatkin 2y ago
    It's sort of as if it's gone. TFA is about what I no longer recognize as what I used to mean when I talked about redis. Since the license change the project with the trademark no longer fits that concept. Valkey does. I'm not sure where I ca find something that fit my old context of MongoDB.
tuananh 2y ago
valkey is still dropin compatible now so migration is pretty easy. plus aws elasticache give you like 30% price cut when you switch to valkey powered engine ; which make it a pretty good incentive.

silverwind 2y ago

Only AWS did, and their fork is already lacking several important new features like HEXPIRE.

slig 2y ago
>`HEXPIRE` Finally. Hope they implement this soon at Valkey.
- reconditerose 2y ago
  We're working on it, you can follow the progress here: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/issues/640 https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/issues/640.
  - slig 2y ago
    Great, thank you so much!
  - OPoncz 2y ago
    Its available on Dragonfly https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly Here is the docs https://www.dragonflydb.io/docs/command-reference/hashes/hexpire https://www.dragonflydb.io/docs/command-reference/hashes/hex...
reconditerose 2y ago
There is a lot of adoption of Valkey. I know it's fun to hate on AWS, but there is a wider shift than just them. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-memorystore-for-valkey https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-... https://upcloud.com/blog/now-supporting-valkey https://upcloud.com/blog/now-supporting-valkey https://aiven.io/blog/introducing-aiven-for-valkey https://aiven.io/blog/introducing-aiven-for-valkey https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/valkey-now-available/ https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/valkey-now-available/ https://elest.io/open-source/valkey https://elest.io/open-source/valkey

davidgl 2y ago

We've switched to https://github.com/microsoft/Garnet https://github.com/microsoft/Garnet and been very happy

Manfred 2y ago

We used Redis in a project where we also manage hosting on a semi-public cloud infrastructure and I had troubled figuring out if license change applied to our situation. We didn't want to pay a lawyer to figure this out, so we switched to Valkey.