Arch Linux Is the Latest Distro Replacing Redis with Valkey

In NoSQL database news, Arch Linux "is the latest Linux distribution replacing its Redis packages with the Valkey fork," reports Phoronix.

Valkey is backed by the Linux Foundation, Google, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle, which the article points out is due to Redis's decision last year to shift the upstream Redis license from a BSD 3-clause to RSALv2 and SSPLv1. Valkey is replacing Redis in the Arch Linux extra repository and after a two week period the Redis package will be moved out to AUR and receive no further updates. Users are encouraged to migrate to Valkey as soon as possible.

What's a Redis and why should I care?

[Anonymous Coward]

All I'm hearing is "Eric replaced a kurklemungeon with a splaggerhump twice a week for five weeks and lost ten pounds."

Breaking news?

Re: What's a Redis and why should I care?

[modecx]

Yeah, the website for the program is not much more illuminating. Evidently it's a sort of database cache which resides in RAM?

Re: What's a Redis and why should I care?

[vbdasc]

According to Wikipedia: "Redis is the most popular NoSQL database".

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[Latent Heat]

The term of art is "inside baseball."

Re: What's a Redis and why should I care?

[fluffernutter]

Redis is a key value database. On a fundamental level, it allows you to store different types of data under string keys or also timeout the data and capture all events relating to every key. It is very fast and can come together quickly for many powerful things. For example, one could easily create a system of keys that act as a database cache. Want cache data to age out? Just put a timeout on every key. Also redis provides methods to store the memory database state to disk without sacrificing memory

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[ls671]

See also memcached which I believe uses its own internal format.
https://memcached.org/ [memcached.org]

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[JustAnotherOldGuy]

Made me laugh.

Re: What's a Redis and why should I care?

[jobslave]

Let's put it this way. If you're on /. and either don't know what Redis is or can't figure out how to look it up. You probably don't know what Arch Linux is let alone even use Linux and your knowledge of anything technology relate should be called into question.

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[allo]

At least we know who runs Arch Linux.

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[JustAnotherOldGuy]

The systemd guy, right?

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[DrMrLordX]

It's less about the software and more about the licensing. Going from bsd 3-clause to a custom license package is quite a change.

Meanwhile,

[vbdasc]

Debian has both Valley and Redis.

Re: Meanwhile,

[vbdasc]

It's Valkey, fucking phone spellchecker.

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[ls671]

Oh, I thought you had been thinking Valley Girls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

QUICK TLDR SUMMARY

[gavron]

This is all TL;DR so if I'm short and you miss something feel free to blame me.

There are different types of databases. Popular in 2024 was Maria (SQL, FOSS fork of MySQL, competitor to Postgres aka PGsql, etc.).
Another type is key/value databases. SALARY=40000 RENT=15000 etc. Redis was FOSS but they* changed it. Valkey forked off Redis and they** are FOSS.

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* The people who controled Redis started with an FOSS license,but changed it. I'm not a lawyer, so let's just go with that.
The FOSS community forked