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  • Valkey 8.0 Released As Speedy Redis Fork Achieving One Million RPS

    Phoronix: Valkey 8.0 Released As Speedy Redis Fork Achieving One Million RPS

    Valkey 8.0 was released today as this leading fork of the Redis open-source code that was started by the Linux Foundation early in the year and backed by organizations from Amazon/AWS to Google Cloud, Oracle, and others. With the Valkey 8.0 release a big focus has been on increasing performance and striving to being capable of delivering one million requests per second...

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    This is a nice remainder for Redis folks to not alienate their clients with some license rug-pull, especially when they are big cloud corporations...
    Too bad they may actually never recover from this

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    • #3
      It's going to be interesting to see how all of these recent forks over licensing perform in the long run, and whether they'll end up discouraging the behavior. On the one hand they seem to do very well at that but on the other hand the existant examples of this working are mostly against Oracle who wasn't that interested in maintaining MySQL, OpenOffice, etc properties besides Java that it picked up from Sun.

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      • #4
        That's nice, but with the license they kept, Redis can merge those updates and be as fast as Valkey, plus the new features they added on 8.0. If Redis do that, why bother switching to Valkey ?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by guildem View Post
          That's nice, but with the license they kept, Redis can merge those updates and be as fast as Valkey, plus the new features they added on 8.0. If Redis do that, why bother switching to Valkey ?
          You can do that initially but as code diverges, and it seems it will, it becomes harder and harder and take longer. At some point these forks will becomes completely separate products with more and more features no longer being compatible.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by cen1 View Post

            You can do that initially but as code diverges, and it seems it will, it becomes harder and harder and take longer. At some point these forks will becomes completely separate products with more and more features no longer being compatible.
            Yes it will, but here, if the 3x speed is true, it would be interesting to merge it on Redis, this is not a small set of fixes. Redis also has support, Valkey hasn't because the "forkers" do their own support internally with highly specialized people. Not sure about how this will evolve for Redis, but as a medium company using intensively redis/valkey, I would like to have support, less expensive than hiring someone.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by guildem View Post
              That's nice, but with the license they kept, Redis can merge those updates and be as fast as Valkey, plus the new features they added on 8.0. If Redis do that, why bother switching to Valkey ?
              They had to keep the license the same, otherwise they'd be doing the same bait-and-switch Redis did. Different companies have different policies on what open-source licenses they accept.

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              • #8
                I notice that Gentoo and Alpine have chosen Redict as Redis alternative. What is the advantage for Valkey over Redict? Do they differ in any meaningful way?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by S.Pam View Post
                  I notice that Gentoo and Alpine have chosen Redict as Redis alternative. What is the advantage for Valkey over Redict? Do they differ in any meaningful way?
                  The big advantage is that Valkey is the one with corporate and Linux Foundation backing.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by S.Pam View Post
                    I notice that Gentoo and Alpine have chosen Redict as Redis alternative. What is the advantage for Valkey over Redict? Do they differ in any meaningful way?
                    From Redict themselves: https://redict.io/posts/2024-04-03-r....3.0-released/

                    So, they're taking a more conservative, maintain what is there approach, emphasizing stability. While Valkey is innovating.

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