With its founder returning and new developments in genAI, the company is forging a different future than Valkey.
If you’re a developer who wants the most feature-rich, high-performance version of Redis, your choice is clear: Redis and not a fork. If you have time and inclination to dabble in ideological debates about open source licensing, well, you might make another choice. But if you’re just trying to get your job done and want a great database that historically was primarily a cache but today offers much more, you’re going to opt for Redis and not its fork, Valkey.
So argues Redis CEO Rowan Trollope in an interview. “It is unquestionable that Redis, since we launched Redis 8.0 with all the capabilities from Redis Stack, is just a far more capable platform,” he says. He substantiates the claim by cataloging “a whole bunch of things” that Valkey doesn’t offer, at least …