I use Valkey and even Fedora has it in the repos. No problems so far, even changing Docker compose files to valkey works without issues π
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Great to hear it is a good drop-in replacement. I've been using KeyDB, but seeing valkey is more actif, I may endup using it too.
Valkey is maintained by the Linux foundation Based on the last opensource redis 7.2 with many improvements
KeyDB is a project by Snapchat afaik π€
Great to hear it is a good drop-in replacement
DB compatibility breaks at a point though (7.x maybe? Going off fuzzy memory) ... so if you're migrating from that version it's a little less "drop in" and more "oh shoot, this method doesn't work either?!? :'( "
Very happy after the 'migration' though!
why does there need to be an alternative? is there something wrong or inefficient with it? is it just too old?
My guess is it's the license change. From Wikipedia:
In 2018, some modules for Redis adopted the SSPL. In 2024, the main Redis code switched to dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available License v2 and the Server Side Public License v1.
Valkey appears to be a Redis fork that was triggered by the license change, but since Valkey still uses the original BSD license, I'm not sure I'd favour it over Redis since the latter switched licences specifically to prevent abuse of the BSD license by parties like Amazon.
For me itβs Keydb. Good backing and dead simple to set up for high availability with master-master replication