Valkey Has a Free In-Memory Database — Community-Driven Redis Fork After License Change

Valkey is a community-driven fork of Redis created after Redis changed to a non-open-source license.

What You Get for Free

• 100% Redis compatible — drop-in replacement, same commands
• BSD 3-Clause license — truly open source (unlike Redis 7.4+)
• Performance — same speed as Redis, ongoing optimizations
• Clustering — Redis Cluster protocol compatible
• Modules — supports Redis modules ecosystem
• Persistence — RDB snapshots + AOF
• Pub/Sub — real-time messaging
• Streams — event log data structure
• Backed by Linux Foundation — AWS, Google, Oracle, Ericsson contributing

Quick Start

# Docker
docker run -d -p 6379:6379 valkey/valkey:latest

# Your existing Redis clients work unchanged
redis-cli -h localhost -p 6379
SET mykey "hello"
GET mykey

Why Companies Are Switching

Redis 7.4+ uses SSPL/RSAL — not open source:

• Valkey is BSD-licensed — use commercially without restrictions
• Linux Foundation backed — long-term sustainability
• AWS, Google Cloud already offer Valkey-based services
• Same API — zero code changes to migrate
• Community-driven — no single company controls the roadmap

A company using Redis 7 in production was concerned about the license change affecting their SaaS product. They switched to Valkey in 10 minutes — changed the Docker image name, everything else worked identically.

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