OPoncz

It's not right to say that Redis "had nothing to do with its development." They were a major contributors and were managing the project for many years. The problem like many other open source project is that the innovation is shared with competitors who happen to be huge corporates. What would you do if for every line of code you add your competitors get X10 customers than you?

Sure. You can do that. But the community needs a single standard. Open standard that all in-memory data stores like Redis, ValKey, DragonflyDB, KeyDB, Kvrocks will support. Otherwise you will end up in a vendor lock.

The figma route is exactly the case were the cost of service is very low. It make sense for Figma to offer a free tier because it costs them almost nothing. But when you have to keep the data available in submillisecond latency it is to expensive to sponsor a free tier.

We @Dragonfly had BSL right from start. I think it makes most sense for todays infrastructure echsystem.

All, My name is Oded Poncz, I am the CEO of DragonflyDB. Our goal with the FAQ was to aggragate valuable information for our community. We will take all the valuable feedback from this thread and improve. Thank you all for the feedback.

KeyDB is a fork of Redis, whereas Dragonfly introduces a brand-new architecture, crafted from the ground up utilizing a share nothing, multi-threaded design. It implements both Redis and memcached APIs

hmm, Redis Labs are setting a cluster of 40 Redis processes on the same instance. It would be extremely difficult to do that with Redis OSS for anyone else.

The Change Date specifies when the source file changes from BSL to the specified Open Source license. Its always in the future.

GPL is copyleft and more restrictive in some elements. BSL 1.1 is actually quite popular nowdays.

License is standard BSL 1.1. which means you can use it in production for your own workloads as long as you do not provide DF as a managed service.

Yes

In Redis cluster the client needs to be connected to all shards and manage those connections. Multi-key operation on different slots are not supported etc... Maintaining a cluster is not a fun responsibility. DF saves you in most cases from the need to grow horizontly which should be much simpler to maintain and work with.