Community maintainers, contributors, and users
will continue collaborative development of an open source,
in-memory data store under the new Valkey name.
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FRANCISCO, March 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today,
the Linux Foundation announced its intent to form Valkey, an open
source alternative to the Redis in-memory, NoSQL data store.
Project contributors quickly gathered maintainer, community, and
corporate support to regroup in response to the recent license
change announced by Redis Inc. Valkey will continue development on
Redis 7.2.4 and will keep the project available for use and
distribution under the open source Berkeley Software Distribution
(BSD) 3-clause license.
Community maintainers, contributors, and
users will continue development of an open source, in-memory data
store.
Since the Redis project was founded in 2009,
thousands of open source developers have contributed significantly
to its growth and success. Many more developers use it for caching,
as well as a lower latency, higher throughput data store
alternative to their backend database, for real-time data analysis,
session store, message broker, and many other use cases. Developers
ranked Redis the sixth most used database in the 2023 Stack
Overflow developer survey, and it was among the top three most
admired.
To continue improving on this important technology and allow for
unfettered distribution of the project, the community created
Valkey, an open source high performance key-value store. Valkey
supports the Linux, macOS, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD platforms.
In addition, the community will continue working on its existing
roadmap including new features such as a more reliable slot
migration, dramatic scalability and stability improvements to the
clustering system, multi-threaded performance improvements,
triggers, new commands, vector search support, and more.
Industry participants, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google
Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson, and Snap Inc. are supporting Valkey.
They are focused on making contributions that support the long-term
health and viability of the project so that everyone can benefit
from it.
"I worked on open source Redis for six
years, including four years as one of the core team members that
drove Redis open source until 7.2. I care deeply about open source
software, and want to keep contributing. By forming Valkey,
contributors can pick up where we left off and continue to
contribute to a vibrant open source community," said Madelyn Olson, former Redis maintainer,
co-creator of Valkey, and a principal engineer at AWS.
"I am pleased to see the Valkey project come together to continue
true open source development. The community's resilience and
commitment to the project means we can continue the same innovative
work that users have come to admire and depend upon." said
Ping Xie, Redis Maintainer and
Founding Contributor and Software Engineer, Google Cloud.
"I have been an active contributor to the project
for the past few years. I'm pleased to see Valkey come together
under open governance to continue the work the Redis open source
community began. Through truly open collaboration, the technology
will continue to evolve and provide value for all users. I'm proud
to serve as one of the maintainers of Valkey and hope to serve the
community to the best of my ability in that role," said Viktor
Söderqvist, Co-Maintainter of Valkey, Senior Open Source Developer,
Ericsson Software Technology, Part of Ericsson.
At the Linux Foundation, Valkey will follow
an open governance model, remaining community-driven and welcoming
of all users and contributors. The project has already assembled a
technical leadership committee of several former Redis
contributors, and hundreds more community members have voiced their
intent to support Valkey. To learn more about Valkey, please visit
the project on GitHub.
Supporting Quotes
"Valkey is an impressive effort by longstanding contributors in the
Redis community to uphold the open source principles that the
project was founded on. I applaud their commitment to true
collaboration and look forward to the innovations that they bring
to the broader tech community as a project at the Linux
Foundation," said Jim Zemlin,
Executive Director, The Linux Foundation.
"Valkey is a fully open source successor built by long standing
Redis contributors and maintainers. Fostering open collaboration
that benefits all and not just a single organization is critical in
building long term, sustainable open source communities. Also,
having this project in the hands of a foundation, rather than a
single company, means Valkey will be community-driven without
surprise license changes that break trust and disrupt a level open
source playing field," said Chris
Aniszczyk, CTO, The Linux Foundation.
"Oracle is excited to see a community of
long-standing Redis contributors come together to ensure a future
for the project in open source with the development of Valkey. We
look forward to collaborating and seeing innovation continue to
flourish in the new home for this important technology," said
Jim Wright, Chief Architect, Open
Source Policy, Strategy, Compliance and Alliances, Oracle.
"It is nice to see a strong community forming so
quickly around Valkey. We believe that continuing to have a well
maintained and innovative option for those who prefer open source
will serve the community well. We look forward to supporting the
open source community on this next phase of its journey," said
Andi Gutmans, GM and VP Engineering,
Databases, Google Cloud.
"Open source Redis is one of today's most popular
databases, and that success has been driven in large part by its
active, thriving community of contributors. Through the creation of
Valkey, many of the former maintainers that contributed to open
source Redis are helping keep the project open for everyone, and
the industry can further support them so the project can continue
to evolve and improve for our customers and the community at large.
We are excited to see the groundswell of support from both the
community and a range of companies that all share our vision that
the best way to maintain this vibrant project is through open
source governance, with contributions from all," said Jeff Carter, Vice President of Relational
Databases, AWS.
About The Linux Foundation
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for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and
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users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open
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The Linux Foundation
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