Big changes to the license used by the popular open source key/value store Redis prompted a fork, with the launch of Valkey. In the time since that fork in March 2024, the two projects have diverged. The Valkey project is concentrating on performance improvements, with recent releases redesigning key low-level features to reduce memory usage and increase throughput. While core features stay similar, there are enough differences between the two stores to make it worth choosing the one best sui...
