Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community
SAN 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.
- SAN 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.
- 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.
- I'm pleased to see Valkey come together under open governance to continue the work the Redis open source community began.
- "Valkey is an impressive effort by longstanding contributors in the Redis community to uphold the open source principles that the project was founded on.