Valkey publishes release candidate and attracts new backer

Valkey, the value-key database pitched as an open source alternative to Redis, has acquired new backers and announced its first release candidate. Backed by the Linux Foundation and cloud vendors AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle, Valkey was started up after Redis confirmed it was shifting its main key-value store system to a dual …

[Tubz]

So another company running tries to pull a fast one with open software to make a fast buck, suddenly finds that their product is now truly open source and a direct competitor, bangs goes any future profit or maybe even the future existence of the company. No Sympathy for greedy companies !

[TonyHoyle]

TBF at least part of the reason for this fork was that *other* greedy companies were upset they'd lose their free lunch..

[jilocasin]

Working as intended.

Actually, that 'free lunch' is explicitly allowed under the open source model/license.

You appear to want to re-construe that as some sort of a bad or unexpected thing.

It was Redis that was trying to pull a fast one, not AWS or the other cloud providers that they are now so concerned about.

You develop/release an open source project, people are not only allowed, but expected, to use it for free.

Redis used the trappings of open source to garner a large following and hopefully a not insignificant number of users who were now dependent on their product. Then, like unfortunately a growing number of companies, they switched up the license locking it down to extract rents from their user base.

I don't have any sympathy for them and wish ValKey all the best of luck.

Hopefully ValKey's success will discourage other companies from going down this same path in the future.

[Anonymous Coward]

Would be nice if Valkey were also to support Windows

to avoid having to rely on a M$ implementation.

[thames]

A piece of a bigger pie is better than no pie.

I suspect that the long term result of this will be to make Valkey ubiquitous and used in applications where nobody was using it before. I've experimented with using Redis in an industrial automation application (too involved to explain here), but I've always faced the problem that with just the Redis company backing it, there was no guaranty that it would still be around years from now. I imagine there are other people in the same boat.

Redis the company should accept that a smaller share of a much bigger pie can still mean having a bigger piece of pie than trying to keep the whole tart to yourself.