Redis Alternatives Compared
summary
Redis shifts license to a non‑competitive source‑available model in March 2024, prompting forks and reimplementations. Major specifics: VY fork with Linux Foundation support already gathers ~100 contributors and ships protocol improvements (VY8), while the LGPL rict fork shows low activity since April. Alternatives include DragonflyDB Community Edition (BSL), Microsoft Garnet implemented from scratch, an Amazon MemoryDB managed option, and an Apache project using Rog DB as storage — each varies in license, feature parity, performance and commercial availability.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 2:24The Redis drama explained
- 6:31Impact of license changes
- 10:54Community response and forks
- 14:47Evaluating alternatives
- 16:28Overview of major alternatives
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