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

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.

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.

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

"As if it's gone"? Is this a joke?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

>`HEXPIRE`

Finally. Hope they implement this soon at Valkey.

We're working on it, you can follow the progress here: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/issues/640.

Great, thank you so much!

Its available on Dragonfly https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly

Here is the docs https://www.dragonflydb.io/docs/command-reference/hashes/hex...

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-... https://upcloud.com/blog/now-supporting-valkey https://aiven.io/blog/introducing-aiven-for-valkey https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/valkey-now-available/ https://elest.io/open-source/valkey

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