Everyone's Racing To Replace Redis - Who Will Win?

Valkey, KeyDB, and more are quickly gaining traction after the Redis license swap. Excited to see where things end up!

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[Kotfluegel]

Back to raw dogging my ConcurrentHashMap singleton

[robvdl]

If you want to know why those "weird Github alternatives" exist. There is a whole story behind that too. Gogs maintainer does something that pisses people off, that causes a fork called Gitea. That goes well for a while until they piss people off, which causes another fork called Forgejo. Forgejo is a fork maintained by Codeberg.

[ChristianConrad]

@32:52 _"What's with all the weird GitHub alternatives in the Linux community, Jesus Christ?"_

No, that's totally bass-ackwards. The correct question would be: What's with the weird idea that everything needs to be on GitHub?!?

[CodecrafterArtemis]

"Oh no, Redis is no longer open source, I must switch to a fork" - said a developer probably using Mac OS, deploying on AWS/Azure/"the cloud", using Visual Studio Code and Chrome.

[BogdanTheGeek]

The linux foundation is NOT the linux kernel. The linux kernel doesn't use Redis....

[hoernschen]

To say that people that don't host their code on github don't want to be part of the open source eco system is such a bad take :/ (32:50)

[LunarLambda]

EDIT: oh lmao the cut-in. good guy theo
correction at 2:50:
BitKeeper, not Mercurial. Mercurial emerged around the same time as Git in 2005. Linux never used it.

[LukeeeeBennettPlus]

Redis team not being good enough to scare Amazon off Redis but Vercel being good enough to scare Amazon off NextJS is an absolutely horrific take.

[sarjannarwan]

The sad thing is, this strengthens companies like AWS in some ways. Like OpenTOFU where it's forked into a charitable organisation. This kind of preemptive licensing I think only works when you first start your project.

[MustNotContainSpaces]

I'm pretty sure the Linux kernel does not depend on redis and never has…

Also: you couldn’t fork Linux and put your own proprietary license on top, the GPL's copyleft clause prevents that.

[jakob]

Did you just say that Redis is a core component of Linux? I don't think that's true.

2:00 - What does "Linux has Redis as a core dependency" mean? I haven't used one single thing in Linux that required me to have Redis installed. I've used Redis myself for server backends, but I've never had an application require it. The Linux Foundation probably created this fork for the benefit of the open-source community.

[nepalxplorer]

C# here we go, bro haven't yet realized how fast is C# lol

[keenoogodlike]

1 week after Redis license changed announcement, C gigachad already making their own version of Redis.

[danielgilleland]

~ 2:50 - "Mecurial is git before git" - Actually, both git and mecurial were initially started within days of each other.

[AmirHosseinHonardust]

I wished more people knew linux exists. Since they decided not to host their project on github, no one in the open source ecosystem know they exist.

[andybrice]

Instead of just saying _"We're ending open-source"_ I feel like it would make more sense to do a funding drive, and say _"This is how much we need to raise in order to remain sustainably open-source."_

[ackz]

there's also Redict by Drew DeVault

[mskiptr]

Thing is, the Linux Foundation is not the Linux community nor even Linux developers. Yes, the Linux Foundation helps with some things around Linux (like organizing events, employing certain developers and I believe funding the infrastructure). But its primary objective is serving its constituents – Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Facebook and so on.

[skyracer-mkhg]

Yep the call button is just such a game breaker. Even if I would like to pay for the solution. If there is a "get a quote" or call button I am instantly looking for something else.