Majority of Redis users considering alternatives after less permissive licensing move
Around 70 percent of Redis users are considering alternatives after the database company made a shift away from permissive open source licensing.
According to a survey by open source database support biz Percona, the move to the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and Server Side Public License (SSPLv1) has motivated almost three quarters of the 151 developers and database managers questioned to look for alternatives.
In March, Redis — the company formerly known as Redis Labs — switched from the BSD 3-clause license, a more permissive arrangement which allows developers to make commercial use of the code without paying for the popular value-key database.
At the time, Redis said source code would continue to be freely available to developers, customers, and partners through Redis Community Edition while future Redis source-available releases would "unify core Redis with Redis Stack, including search, JSON, vector, probabilistic, and time-series data models in one free, easy-to-use package as downloadable software."
The decision prompted the launch of Redis alternative Valkey, forked from Redis 7.2.4 and available for use and distribution under the BSD license. It is being managed by the Linux Foundation, and is backed by AWS, Google and Oracle among others.
