Jan 21, 2026 |
Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Valkey
One of our founders, Peter Zaitsev took a look at Redis (Remote DIctionary Server) when it first emerged in 2009 https://www.percona.com/blog/looking-at-redis/ which reminded me how far this project has come in sixteen years, evolving from a simple key-value store into a multi-model platform including vector search. This article covers this evolution in four distinct eras. […]
Dec 05, 2025 |
Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Valkey
Summary This article is a detailed analysis of the impact of the Redis license change to a non-open-source one on its community. To summarize the findings: 37.5% of contributors (9 of 24) stopped contributing to Redis after the fork Valkey grew from 18 to 49 contributors in 18 months Valkey averages 80 PRs/month in 2025 […]
Aug 28, 2025 |
Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Valkey
From a technology perspective, Redis does a great job as a database and data cache. According to 6Sense, Redis is currently the number one product as an in-memory data cache. It just works. However, that position is also a potential challenge. Redis does its job so well that, well, why should you change it? One […]