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When the company announced the licensing change, the community response was immediate and intense, leading to a sense of distrust. Many developers felt a personal connection to what Redis represented, and the new licensing model seemed to betray that ethos. In response, a group of developers decided to fork the project, creating Valky, a new database solution dedicated to remaining fully open source. Tech giants like AWS, Oracle, and Google quickly rallied behind this new initiative, publicly supporting Valky as a suitable alternative.
In this landscape of bewilderment and shifting loyalties, the question loomed: can Valky genuinely fulfill its promise to provide a reliable and effective open-source substitute for Redis?
Testing Valky: A Hands-on Approach