The Linux Foundation has announced a fork of the Redis database called Valkey

The Linux Foundation has announced Project Valkey, an open-source alternative to the Redis in-memory database. It responds to recent changes in the licensing of the Redis project, which is no longer considered free software. Valkey will continue development and build upon Redis 7.2.4, with the database still available under a three-clause BSD license. The source code is already available on GitHub.

Valkey supports Linux, macOS, OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD platforms. In addition, the community will continue to work on the existing roadmap, including new features such as more reliable slot migration, significant improvements to the scalability and stability of the cluster system, multi-threaded performance improvements, triggers, new commands, vector search support, and more.

The foundation is not alone, with contributors including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson and Snap Inc. Valkey will be maintained as an open, community-driven project, with a technical steering committee already formed from several former Redis contributors. I worked on open-source Redis for six years, four of which as one of the main members of the team that managed Redis as open source until version 7.2. I care deeply about open-source software and want to continue contributing to it. By creating Valkey, contributors can pick up where we left off and continue to contribute to a vibrant open-source community, she said Madelyn Olsonformer Redis administrator, co-creator of Valkey, and principal engineer at AWS.

(Notified by Véroš Kaplan.)