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3 serious forks of #Redis to watch:

Mutli-threaded fork of Redis based on Redis 6.
BSD 3 Clause license.
Owned by Snapchat.
https://github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB

#Redict

Recent fork by one person based on the last open source version of Redis 7.2.4.
On Codeberg.
LGPL 3.0 license.
https://codeberg.org/redict/redict

PlaceholderKV (searching for name)

Started by former Redis contributor(s) and AWS employees.
BSD 3 Clause license.
https://github.com/placeholderkv/placeholderkv

Boosts appreciated 🙏

#opensource #oss #foss #gpl

Like 23 March at 15:26 | Open on me.dm

11 comments

gunstick

@viktor tbose licenses should be changed in a way that they cannot be made closed source.

23 March at 18:25 | Open on mastodon.opencloud.lu

Federico Damián Schonborn

@gunstick @viktor Redict has a LGPL license and a DCO, the only way to change the license is if every single developer and every contributor agrees

23 March at 21:30 | Open on mastodon.uy

Julia

@viktor @rysiek Also: Garnet https://github.com/microsoft/garnet, MIT, Redis-compatible and created by Microsoft (this can be a good or a bad thing)

23 March at 21:41 | Open on mathstodon.xyz

Viktor Nagornyy

@julia @rysiek That's not a fork though, but an open source alternative. Curious to see if it gains traction.

23 March at 21:53 | Open on me.dm

lunchy

@viktor any rust reimpls?

23 March at 22:16 | Open on tilde.zone

Viktor Nagornyy

@lunch Skytable is the closest Rust alternative to Redis: https://github.com/skytable/skytable

23 March at 22:21 | Open on me.dm

Ryan Hamel

@viktor@me.dm Why not DragonflyDB or Skytable, which have been around before the license change?

24 March at 5:41 | Open on calckey.club

Christof Donat

@viktor

#Redis #KeyDB #Redict #opensource #oss #foss #gpl

That's great, thank you. Does anybody know, what happened to Pedis (Parallel Redis)? It seems to be stalled.

24 March at 7:18 | Open on hostsharing.coop

Justin

@viktor I was really dreading this. Many forks pop up. People go to different ones and then you have no really solid one to choose from as the official successor.

24 March at 7:41 | Open on toot.io

Markus Wamser

@viktor Andrew Kelley has a good take on this: https://andrewkelley.me/post/redis-renamed-to-redict.html

tl;dr: Redis forked itself by doing the license change and the project's legitimate continuation is under the name Redict.

24 March at 9:15 | Open on hachyderm.io

Alex

@viktor Kvrocks seems to be Redis compatible. Might be worth a look: https://github.com/apache/kvrocks

24 March at 12:23 | Open on mastodon.social