Valkey publishes release candidate and attracts new backer

Valkey, the value-key database pitched as an open source alternative to Redis, has acquired new backers and announced its first release candidate.

Valkey was started up after Redis confirmed it was shifting its main key-value store system to a dual-license approachthe Valkey 7.2.5-rc1 release candidate, based on Redis OSS 7.2.4. It regains the protocol, API, return values, and data file formats with the last open source release of Redis, the developers claim.The project has also named a raft of companies now supporting the project.

In a prepared statement, Zhao Zhao, former Redis core team member, co-maintainter of Valkey and Alibaba Cloud software engineer said:"At the Linux Foundation, Valkey will follow an open governance model, remaining community-driven and welcoming of all users and contributors. The project has already assembled a technical leadership committee of several former Redis contributors, and hundreds more community members have voiced their intent to support Valkey.

Gail Frederick, CTO at Salesforce cloud platform unit Heroku, commented:"With this group of experienced contributors and broad industry backing, Valkey is continuing the open source model that's been transformative for developers everywhere.". It said it was adopting the Server Side Public License, which has also been adopted by MongoDB and Elastic Search.

The change is set to take effect from Redis version 7.4. It's probable multiple Linux distributors will drop Redis from their codebases. Discussions are already taking place about this on the openSUSE and Fedora mailing lists.

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