Two Years of Valkey
17 points by rmoff
17 points by rmoff
When Redis changed the licence there was another fork: redict by Drew DeVault. He changed the license to LGPL to prevent another license change to a closed-source licence like Redis Inc tried. The project was barely active in the last year.
The project was barely active in the last year.
To be fair, for most people, Redis is about as "complete" as software gets.
Well Valkey has an active interest in differentiating itself from Redis, while Redict does not.
People seem to forget that Valkey is a product sold by the clouds, who have people on their payroll whose job is to work on the product (and thus to compete against all other Redis forks, especially the Redis Labs one).
My former manager from Redis Labs works at AWS on Valkey, for example.
Is it just me, or are the number of contributors (specifically the top for “personal…”) cut off in the chart? (I just see the first digit.)