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“The Unstoppable Trio: Valkey Redis Fork Receives Support from AWS, Google, and Oracle”

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The Linux Foundation last week announced that it will host Valkey, a fork of the Redis in-memory data store. Valkey is backed by AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson and Snap. AWS and Google Cloud rarely back an open-source fork together. At the time, Redis said that despite this change for the modules, “the license for open-source Redis was never changed. This fork originated at AWS, where longtime Redis maintainer Madelyn Olson initially started the project in her own GitHub account.

Redis Acquires New Speedb License and Expands its Realm of Operation: A Shift from Basic In-Memory Database

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In addition, Redis today announced that it has acquired storage engine Speedb (pronounced ‘speedy-bee’) to take it beyond the in-memory space. Redis license changesIn some way, the licensing move is no surprise. We’ve seen other open source companies like MongoDB, Elastic and Confluent make similar moves. He is also quite aware that these new license mean Redis won’t be considered open source, at least according to the definition of the Open Source Institute. Because of the BSD license, Redis wasn’t able to put its latest innovations into Redis Core, meaning it was missing features like search and query, for example.